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Folder title: "Stamps in the Making"
Date: 12/03/1956
Description:This film strip is borrowed by groups and associations for showing.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:03-02-32
Subject(s): Filmstrips ; Postage Stamp Printing ; Public Relations - Customer Relations
Folder title: 125.2 Orders on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing December 1948
Date: 03/18/1909
Description:Orders by the third Assistant Postmaster General to the Secretary of the Treasury for quantities of stamps to be printed, postage stamps and revenue stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-01-01
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:Third Assistant Postmaster General
Folder title: 205.16 Stamped Paper Models, Proofs and Specimens to December 1918
Date: 03/01/1909
Description:Correspondence from the Third Assistant Postmaster General having received or sent models, proofs and specimens.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-04-03
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Postage Stamp Design ; Envelopes (Stationery)
Folder title: 21 Schedule of the Delivery Bureau of Engraving and Printing Engravings
Date: 08/01/1935
Description:Subject of the engraving and the original source.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Delivery Forms
Folder number:03-06-07
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United State Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: 210.10 Stamps, Postage Dies, Rolls and Plates January 1944 to
Date: 03/06/1944
Description:Correspondence on the processes of the manufacturer of the United States stamps. Some plate numbers given.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-05-13
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: 210.16-2 Stamps Postage Rotary Press
Date: 01/09/1923
Description:An additional press is needed to meet the demand for coil stamps. When a flat-bed press is used the color change was noticeable from the original stamps printed with a Rotary press.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-05-05
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: 210.9 Stamps, Postage Die Proofs of
Date: 02/17/1923
Description:Requests for die proofs.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-04-10
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: 210.9 Stamps, Postage Die Proofs of Jan 1946 to
Date: 01/06/1946
Description:Record of Disbursements of proofs, stamps and booklets. Requests for proofs and Post Office response.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:04-04-08
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: 70 Dies - Miscellaneous
Date: 05/29/1936
Description:Information regarding dies, rolls and hubs.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-05-17
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: 70.1 Destruction of Old Dies, Rolls and Plates April 1873 - January 1926
Date: 09/17/1875
Description:Destruction of postage stamp plates, rolls and dies dated 1875 to 1906. Folder 3 of 3.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists ; Correspondence
Folder number:04-05-20
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: 70.1 Dies, Destruction of Old Dies, Rolls and Plates April 1873 - January 1926 1
Date: 12/30/1911
Description:Destruction of postage stamp plates, rolls and dies April, 1873 - January, 1926.. Folder 1 of 3.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-05-18
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: 70.1 Dies, Destruction of Old Dies, Rolls and Plates April 1873 - January 1926 2
Date: 08/07/1897
Description:Destruction of postage stamp plates, rolls and dies dated 1897 to 1912. Folder 2 of 3.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists
Folder number:04-05-19
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: 75B Envelopes, Stamped The Art of Paper Making
Date: 01/01/1928 - 01/01/1929
Description:Illustrated paper making and the paper "Rags" published by the rag content paper manufacturers.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Pamphlets
Folder number:04-05-01
Subject(s): Envelopes (Stationery) ; Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Rag Content Paper Manufacturers
Folder title: 9. Color Press - Pros and Cons Trimming Plt. Nos.
Date: 07/20/1966
Description:Stamp collectors want the printing of plate block numbers continued on the nine color press.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:06-04-02
Subject(s): Stamp Collecting (Philately) ; Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: Alabama
Date: 07/08/1954
Description:Correspondence between the Post Office Department and residents of Alabama.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:05-04-01
Subject(s): Letter Writing - Government Correspondence ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: Bureau Engraving & Printing - Photo -Brochure - Paper Requirements Etc.
Date: 10/19/1967
Description:Brochures of the History of Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Two contracts for postage stamp paper.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Contracts ; Brochures
Folder number:03-02-11
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Unites States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Postage Stamp Plates Nov. 1953
Date: 12/08/1953
Description:Plate numbers sent to press for the first time in November, 1953.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Lists
Folder number:04-02-12
Subject(s): United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Reports 1910,1914 and 1915
Date: 06/30/1910
Description:Annual reports of the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for 1910, 1914, and 1915
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Printed Materials
Folder number:04-01-02
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureat of Engraving and Printing
Original source:Secretary of the Treasury
Folder title: Citizen's Stamp Advisory 1978
Date: 10/19/1978
Description:An exhibit to demonstrate the effect of stamp design on the printed reproduction presented to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Presentations
Folder number:06-01-16
Subject(s): Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee ; Postage Stamp Designs ; Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: Experimental Printing
Date: 10/16/1953
Description:Correspondence between the Post Office Department and various companies discussing new methods of printing postage stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:03-07-16
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: Finance
Date: 07/24/1953
Description:Correspondence between the Post Office Department and individuals regarding postal matters and misdirected remittances received. Material regarding printing of postage stamps and the destruction of discontinued stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-01-07
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Administration
Folder title: FL - Presses (Plate Blocks)
Description:Several copies of an undated letter by the Philatelic Affairs Division Manager explaining that the Post Office Department cannot provide a definition of a plate block and detailing how printing plates are used on each type of press.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:02-05-08
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Stamp Collecting (Philately)
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Gravure and Intaglio Press that Print United States Postage Stamps
Date: 03/01/1984
Description:Description of various printing press and the particular stamps that were printed on the them.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Information Sheets
Folder number:05-03-38
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:Bureau of Engraving and Printing Department of the Treasury
Folder title: Harvey, O. H., "Illustrations of Printing Methods"
Description:Description and illustrations of Printing Methods
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Magazines
Folder number:05-06-20
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Stamp Collecting (Philately)
Original source:Copy from Unknown Magazine
Folder title: Head of Stamp Division Journal 1871 - `874
Date: 03/29/1870
Description:Handwritten listing of stamps ordered and the cost by month from Continental Bank Note Co. N.Y. and other resources.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Journals
Folder number:04-01-03
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Stamp Collecting (Philately)
Original source:Head of Stamp Division Internal Revenue Office
Folder title: Hoe Printing Press 1873
Date: 01/18/1873
Description:Description and picture of a Stop Cylinder Wood-Cut Press.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Advertisements
Folder number:05-07-32
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:R. Hoe and Company
Folder title: Index of Postal Patents
Date: 01/01/1851 - 01/01/1913
Description:Patent number, name of person, and kind of item that was developed to improve postal service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists
Folder number:05-06-33
Subject(s): Postage Stamps ; Cancelling Machines ; Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Postal Patents of the U.S.A.
Folder title: Lorenzo of Hatch, Engraver
Date: 11/01/1967
Description:Lorenzo Hatch was one of the foremost engravers of his time…
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:03-02-23
Subject(s): Persons ; Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: New Mexico
Date: 03/24/1955
Description:Correspondence between the Post Office Department and residents of New Mexico.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:05-04-33
Subject(s): Letter Writing - Government Correspondence ; Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: New Printing - Commercial - Gravure -Eakins Iss. Nov. 2, 1967
Date: 06/10/1967
Description:First U.S. postage stamp to be printed by the Gravure method it was printed in the fall of 1967. Its creator was Thomas Eakins and the stamp was entitled "The Beglan Brothers Racing."
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases
Folder number:05-01-28
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Post Office Dept - Inventory of Stp Collections & Albums
Date: 04/10/1909
Description:Record of postage stamps delivered, from 1909 to 1915, to the third assistant postmaster general as well as the inventory of stamp collections and albums.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Lists
Folder number:03-03-32
Subject(s): Stamp Collecting (Philately) ; Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: Postage Stamp Printing
Date: 11/15/1962
Description:Suggested pictorial display of postage stamp operations for the Smithsonian Institution. Stamp Production flow model.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Drawings ; Descriptions
Folder number:03-02-29
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Smithsonian Institution
Original source:Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: Postage Stamp Printing
Date: 10/28/1938
Description:The third assistant post master general requested information from various countries about their postage stamp manufacturing process. Reply from the British Postal Services Department; the Direction General of Posts, The Hague, Holland; the German Post; the Direction General of the Royal Post of Hungary; The Swiss PTT; The Argentine Republic; and, the Republic of France with information on the printing of postage stamps. A brief history of the United States Postal Service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:03-03-06
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: Postage Stamp Production Facts
Description:Printing history of individual stamps (re: Designer, Engraver, number of stamps, etc.) from issue of 1898 thru 1937. Stamps included are the Trans-Mississippi "Omaha" Exposition Stamp Issue of 1898, Pan American issues, Louisiana Purchase, Hudson-Fulton, Panama-Pacific, etc., regular issues and special delivery issues.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases
Folder number:05-01-26
Subject(s): Postage stamp design ; Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Solicitation, Offer and Award Form
Date: 12/24/1981
Description:Solicitation for a contract to study alternate methods of stamp production.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Forms
Folder number:02-07-24
Subject(s): Administration ; Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Stamp Book - General
Date: 06/21/1972
Description:Correspondence concerning the printing of stamp booklets and pictures of booklets to be issued in 1972.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Photographs
Folder number:02-05-13
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Stamp Tagging
Date: 08/03/1966
Description:Memoranda pertaining to luminescent postage stamps and stamp tagging. Some areas covered on stamp tagging include: field testing, the National supply contract, raising the level of tagged indicia., increase the efficiency and reliability for letters faced and cancelled by Mark II automatic facer-cancellers, separately identify and collect airmail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Minutes
Folder number:02-02-32
Subject(s): Luminescent postage stamps ; Automation ; Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: U. S. Stamp Production in 1874. Stamp Collectors Magazine Vol. XII, p. 57-59
Date: 01/01/1874
Description:How stamps are manufactured in the U.S.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-21
Subject(s): Stamp Collecting (Philately) ; Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Stamp Collectors Magazine
Folder title: US Patent Office Copies of Postal Inventions
Date: 01/01/1861
Description:List and patent information on Postal inventions. Patent for Improvement in postage-stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists ; Designs
Folder number:05-06-34
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Patent Office
Folder title: Use Zip Code
Date: 01/17/1975
Description:Letter to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing providing guidance in printing Use Zip Code in the selvage of sheets.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:02-05-19
Subject(s): Zip Code ; Postage Stamp Printing
Folder title: USPOD - Plate No. Reports
Date: 03/19/1952
Description:Lists of plate numbers used and number of stamps printed by each.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists ; Correspondence
Folder number:03-03-27
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: USPOD - Plate No. Reports
Date: 03/02/1948
Description:Lists of plate numbers used and number of stamps printed by each.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists ; Correspondence
Folder number:03-03-28
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Folder title: USPOD - Plate No. Reports
Date: 04/08/1974
Description:Press releases listing plate numbers used and number of stamps printed by each.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases
Folder number:03-03-29
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Press Release ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Postal Service
Folder title: USPOD - Plate No. Reports
Date: 07/22/1974
Description:Lists of plate numbers with memoranda and notes regarding information in the plate number reports.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists ; Memorandums
Folder number:03-03-26
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: USPOD - Printing by Photo-lithography 12/15/30
Date: 12/15/1936
Description:Unless there is an emergency, photo-lithography printing is not necessary.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:03-02-37
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: USPOD Philatelic Sales Unit 2
Date: 07/30/1973
Description:Information about proofs, essays and models
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:03-03-02
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing ; Postage Stamp Designs
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: USPOD Production Contract
Date: 10/06/1978
Description:Official forms for the printing of stamps by a private firm.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Contracts
Folder number:03-02-02
Subject(s): Postage Stamp Printing
Original source:Post Office Department
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