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Folder title: "Abraham Cohen = Deputy Postmaster, Georgetown, S. C. (1789-1800)
Date: 03/01/1959
Description:About the life of Abraham Cohen, Deputy Postmaster, Georgetown, South Carolina.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Reprints
Folder number:05-06-04
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Employees
Original source:Publication of the American Jewish Historical Society
Folder title: "History of the Railway Mail Service" Washington, D.C.: U.S. Post Office Dept. c. 1932
Date: 09/26/1932
Description:Excerpt taken from data placed in cornerstone of new Post Office Department building, September 26 1932.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Excerpts
Folder number:05-06-01
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: 1802-25 Leather Mail Pouch (Photo) etc. From Western Reserve Historical Society. Photocopy of instructions to postmasters dated 01/20/1825
Date: 01/20/1825
Description:A photograph of a leather mail pouch from 1802-1825, with a photocopy of instructions to postmasters dated 01/20/1825.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs ; Correspondence
Folder number:01-02-13
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Mail Service ; Postmasters
Original source:Post Office Department Western Reserve Historical Society
Folder title: 205.12 Stamped Paper History of Jan. 1920
Date: 01/05/1920
Description:Information regarding stamps and the subjects of stamps from 1847 to 1946.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:04-04-02
Subject(s): Postage Stamps ; History - Postal ; Envelopes (Stationery)
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: 22
Date: 12/24/1852
Description:Correspondence from Philatelist Herbert Bernstein to curator Carl Scheele of the Smithsonian Institute, containing a letter from 1852 by a Mr. Thomas Brewer.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:01-02-18
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Mail Service
Original source:Smithsonian Institution
Folder title: Arthur Hecht Manuscript
Date: 04/15/1957
Description:Manuscript titled The war of 1812 and the Post Office Department, Saint Mary's County
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Manuscripts
Folder number:05-01-32
Subject(s): History - Postal
Original source:Arthur Hecht
Folder title: British Packets
Date: 05/22/1784
Description:Copy of a notice used in England about paying for the cost of mail to New York and Halifax as well as a copy of commander flags on various Post Office packet boats.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:06-04-20
Subject(s): Foreign Mail ; History - Postal
Folder title: Byzantine Empire
Date: 01/01/1959
Description:The Byzantine Empire in the World of the Seventh Century and The Role of the Trade in the Economic Readjustment of Byzantium in the Seventh Century.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-15
Subject(s): History - Postal
Original source:Dunbarton Oak Research Library and Collection
Folder title: Civil War postal History
Date: 01/01/1960
Description:A research paper pertaining to mail delivery to the US. Navy during the US. Civil War 1861 - 1865
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Research Papers
Folder number:01-02-14
Subject(s): History - Postal ; United States Navy - Postal Service ; Postal Service
Folder title: Clippings from Scientific American 1954 (photocopies)
Date: 12/17/1853
Description:Photocopies of articles printed in the Scientific American dealing with matters of postage, postal services and correspondence.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-26
Subject(s): Postal Service ; History - Postal
Original source:Scientific American
Folder title: Confederate States of America
Date: 02/25/1962
Description:An article pertaining to mail service and stamps in the Confederate States of America.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:01-02-21
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postage Stamps
Original source:News and Courier
Folder title: Cunningham, P. & Lucas, C. , Occupational Costume in England rom 11th Cent. To 1914. pp. 233-249
Description:Description of how mail is carried from the eleventh century to 1914. Parts from a book.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Excerpts
Folder number:05-06-28
Subject(s): History - Postal
Original source:Occupational Costume in England
Folder title: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine "The Post Office of the Revolutionary War", J. C. Fitzpatrick.
Date: 10/01/1922
Description:A magazine article pertaining to the Post Office during the American Revolutionary War.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:01-02-11
Subject(s): History - Postal
Original source:Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Folder title: Free Mail - Historical Background
Description:A list of Acts from 1789 - 1968 pertaining to the history of the free mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists
Folder number:01-02-09
Subject(s): History - Postal
Folder title: General History - U. S. P. O. D and Postal Development All Periods All Phases
Date: 05/04/1881
Description:History of Post Office and mail service in Colonial and U.S. times.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases ; Articles ; Correspondence
Folder number:03-03-11
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: German P. O. Hist.
Date: 01/01/1959
Description:German postal history by horse, by wagon by foot. Parts from a book.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Excerpts
Folder number:05-03-16
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign
Original source:Zu Pferde, em Wagen, zu Fuss Tailsend Jabre Reisen
Folder title: History of Postage Stamps IS Pamphlets
Date: 08/05/1962
Description:Order form for the printing of 50,000 copies of the Post Office Department pamphlet: History of United States Postage Stamps, Postal Cards, and Stamped Envelopes.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Order Forms
Folder number:02-05-15
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Stamp Collecting (Philately)
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: History of the Post Office
Date: 04/01/1965
Description:A press release detailing the history of the Post Office Department.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases
Folder number:02-05-26
Subject(s): Public Relations (Press Releases) ; History - Postal
Folder title: History of U.S. Stamps
Date: 01/10/1908
Description:Material on the history of the United States Postal Service and of United States Postage Stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases ; Articles
Folder number:04-02-03
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postage Stamps ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Folder title: History, Postal
Date: 08/05/1974
Description:Correspondence and photographs regarding possible donations to the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Photographs
Folder number:05-01-31
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Smithsonian Institution
Folder title: J. B. Trapp
Date: 04/18/1935
Description:Correspondence in regard to postal history and comments on a article written by Mr. J. B. Trapp, in December 1940; Issue of the Union Postal Clerk.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:01-01-05
Subject(s): History - Postal
Original source:William Duncan Gilbert E. Huatt
Folder title: Japan
Date: 04/29/1963
Description:Discussion of the Postal Service in Japan from the beginning of the service to the present (1963).
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-17
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign
Folder title: Kelly, Bernard, "Hauling the Mail on Foot & Horseback," Empire Magazine (Jan. 20, 1970) (Denver Post)
Date: 01/25/1970
Description:"Hauling the mail on foot and horseback" an historical article.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-23
Subject(s): History - Postal
Original source:Empire Magazine
Folder title: Latin American Mails - Pre Columbian - Modern
Description:Handwritten, translated from Spanish - The Origin of Postal Service in America.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-11
Subject(s): History - Postal
Folder title: Malta
Date: 09/01/1964
Description:Discussion of the postal service in Malta from the beginning of the service to the present (1964).
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-18
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign
Original source:Union Postale, Vol. 89, No. 9
Folder title: Military Mail Service - Civil War, Union Army
Date: 01/01/1981
Description:Military mail service during the Civil War for the Union Army.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-32
Subject(s): United States Army - Postal Service ; History - Postal
Folder title: Miscelleanous Clippings from Wm C. Stone Library (ex George G. Turner Library)
Date: 01/01/1909 - 01/01/1961
Description:Newspaper and magazine articles concerning Confederate postal matters. List of the population of places in 1860 which issued Confederate Provisional Stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-01-29
Subject(s): History - Postal
Folder title: Mongolia
Date: 10/01/1965
Description:Discussion of the history of the postal service in Mongolia from the beginning until the present (1965).
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-20
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign
Original source:Union Postale, Vol. 90, No.10
Folder title: New York Mail Steamer
Date: 01/01/1937
Description:Information of how the mail steamer service began. Also a discussion about installation of household mail boxes.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Drafts ; Articles
Folder number:05-07-28
Subject(s): Postal Service ; History - Postal
Folder title: New Zealand
Date: 07/01/1965
Description:Discussion of the postal service in New Zealand from the beginning of the service to the present (1965).
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-19
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign
Original source:Union Postale, Vol. 90, No. 7
Folder title: Northern Countries Postal Union (Denmark, Norway, Sweden)
Date: 06/01/1964
Description:Discussion of the postal service in Northern Countries - Denmark, Norway and Sweden. These countries have a trilateral postal agreement.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-21
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign
Original source:Union Postale, Vol. 89, No.6
Folder title: Ohio
Date: 06/01/1962
Description:Description of mail carried in 1809 from Cleveland to Detroit, by foot, with mail satchel shown.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Brochures
Folder number:05-07-29
Subject(s): Postal Service ; History - Postal
Original source:Historical Society News
Folder title: Overland Mail - Route No. 12578
Date: 03/12/1861
Description:Photocopy of the contract for carrying mail on Route 12578 (which is changed to Route 10773) beginning 07/01/1861.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Contracts
Folder number:05-06-29
Subject(s): Postal Service ; History - Postal
Folder title: P. 1. History "History of Air Trans. Of Mail"
Date: 05/02/1963
Description:Materials depicting and describing the history of Air Mail in the Post Office Department. Some examples of material include the following: Directory of Publications, Air Transportation, Transportation of Mail by Air, facts and figures lists for topics on Air Mail history. Postal policy on mail matters vs. those of the Air Transportation Association.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Correspondence ; Brochures ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-02-17
Subject(s): Air mail service ; History - Postal ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Folder title: P. 1. History Misc Pamphlets
Description:An Early History of International Postal Service, Zip Code the Last Word in Mail Addressing; How to Interpret New Postal Regulations Effective 01/01/1963; Postmasters Benefit Plan; Brochures on mail fraud; domestic postal rates; mail order obscenity; and, history of postage stamps postal cards and stamped envelopes.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Pamphlets ; Brochures ; Benefit Plans
Folder number:02-02-11
Subject(s): Postal Service ; History - Postal ; Zip Code
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: P. 1. History Muleback Routes
Date: 06/03/1966
Description:Requests and stories about Star Routes that were serviced by horse or mule in various parts of the country.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:02-02-12
Subject(s): Star Routes ; History - Postal
Folder title: P. 1. History Railroads
Date: 01/08/1967
Description:Newspaper articles depicting the history of the railroad and its connection with the Post Office Department, much of the material is in relation to the elimination of railway mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:02-02-21
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal
Original source:Milwaukee Journal St. Paul Pioneer Press
Folder title: P.1. History Post Office Department
Date: 04/18/1965
Description:Information of Post Office Department historical interest for the period noted above.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases ; Publications
Folder number:02-05-07
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Papyrus, Parchment, Letters, Books, Writing in Ancient Times
Description:Production and distribution of the written word in ancient times.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-14
Subject(s): History - Postal
Original source:H. Stuart Jones
Folder title: Paris Balloon Flts. 1870-7
Date: 01/01/1870
Description:Map showing balloon posts from Paris to various countries as well as balloon posts within France
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Maps
Folder number:05-03-24
Subject(s): Balloon post ; History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign
Original source:Stamp Wholesaler
Folder title: Pending - Resolution 25 Hearings - 7/31 - 8/3/67 Testimony Mr. Hartigan
Date: 10/06/1967
Description:Testimony concerning S. 2333 that would provide certain benefits to postal employees who are transferred to new duty stations in the interest of the government.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Testimonies
Folder number:02-07-06
Subject(s): Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Persons ; History - Postal
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Pony Express Saddle
Date: 01/01/1964
Description:History of the Pony Express as appearing in the South Wales Clarion of August, 1964, Jefferson, Virginia.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:03-02-26
Subject(s): Express Service ; History - Postal
Folder title: Postal History
Date: 01/28/1969
Description:Publications and rough copy of suggested brochure concerning postal history.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Brochures
Folder number:03-02-51
Subject(s): History - Postal
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Postal History - Boston
Date: 10/28/1906
Description:Compilation of material about the postal history of Boston.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:06-05-57
Subject(s): History - Postal
Folder title: Postal History - Woolfolk Stage Lines Bowling Green, VA
Description:Listing of the source of papers of Woolfolk Company at the College of William and Mary dated 1775 - 1893. A report of the Select Committee to investigate the affairs of the Post Office Department, March 3, 1821. An article in "Virginia Cavalcade", 1977 , about the Woolfolk's stage coach line. Various papers regarding the Woolfolk family.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists ; Articles
Folder number:05-01-15
Subject(s): History - Postal
Folder title: Postal History Bibliographies
Date: 09/01/1957
Description:Bibliography of books and articles concerning postal history.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Lists
Folder number:06-05-52
Subject(s): History - Postal
Folder title: Railway Mail Service - Streetcar Service
Date: 01/01/1885
Description:History of Railway Mail Service, copies of photographs and articles of Streetcar Mail Service
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-07-33
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal
Original source:Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company
Folder title: Trans. 1 Gen. Correspondence 1966
Date: 01/14/1966
Description:General administrative correspondence. One draft of an information sheet on the history of pneumatic mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-06-31
Subject(s): Administration ; Postal Service ; Pneumatic Machinery
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Transportation - Kentucky Star Routes
Date: 10/27/1961
Description:Material about horseback star routes in Eastern Kentucky and Cincinnati concerns range from salary concerns to specific forms being completed and inspection issues as well.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Maps
Folder number:01-07-21
Subject(s): Star Routes ; History - Postal
Folder title: U. P. U.
Date: 01/01/1949
Description:Some history of the Universal Postal Union on its 65th anniversary. Also a brochure about the Universal Postal Union distributed in 1960 by the Post Office Department.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs ; Brochures ; Translations
Folder number:05-03-13
Subject(s): History - Postal
Folder title: U. S. - Gen'l Postal History
Date: 05/02/1940
Description:An invitation for the centennial of the first adhesive postage stamp held at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Invitations ; Itineraries
Folder number:01-02-08
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postage Stamps
Original source:Washington Philatelic Society
Folder title: U. S. Posts - 1800 to 1861 (Prior to the Civil War)
Date: 08/18/1802
Description:Magazine articles and letters pertaining to U. S. Postal Service and employment from 1800 - 1861. Handwritten letter from I. D. Cox 4/14/1859 concerning agents on a mail route in Virginia. (In white archival envelope) ; Articles about historic highways in the United States.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Correspondence
Folder number:01-02-12
Subject(s): Post Office Buildings ; History - Postal ; Postal Employment - Employees
Original source:American Association of Highway Officials
Folder title: Universal Postal Union
Date: 03/01/1964
Description:Discussion of the Universal Postal Union's founding.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-22
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation
Original source:Union Postale, Vol. 89, No.3
Folder title: USPO
Date: 12/15/1961
Description:Historical items on mail service and stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists ; Articles ; Correspondence ; Brochures
Folder number:03-02-31
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Rates ; Smithsonian Institution
Folder title: USPOD Photo of 1836 Voucher & Cover
Date: 01/18/1836
Description:A photograph of a voucher from 1836, Salt Creek, IL showing salaries and pensions.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs
Folder number:01-02-15
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees ; History - Postal
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Venetian Letter, 1390 - Gift of John Rider
Date: 10/16/1966
Description:A Venetian business letter from 1390 was donated to the Smithsonian. It is the oldest paper letter in the collection.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:03-02-22
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Smithsonian Institution
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