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Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, & the Post
Sheila A. Brennan, PhD
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Thank you, National Postal Museum!
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After Omaha's triumph is properly won,
Other towns, not forgetting our own,
Will be fully entitled to do so as she's done;
In this thing she must not stand alone.
And if some day the crush
Of the Jubilee rush
Uncle Sam and his factory swamps,
The old Sammy will moan,
"Ah, had I only known
I'd have sat on those Omaha stamps."
Unknown, “Untitled Poem,” Mekeel’s Weekly Stamp News
(reprinted from the Pittsburgh Leader) 11, no. 7 (February 17, 1898): 78.
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Chicago Daily Tribune (Jan 1, 1898)
Title Text
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Stamp Collecting for Women
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Ladies' Home Journal (March 1901) | Godey's Lady's Book (1880)
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American Philatelic Association (later Society)
founded 1886
Stamp Papers
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Different Album Styles
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Wannamaker & the Columbians (1892-93)
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Post Office in American Life
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Town Store and Post Office, artist, Daniel Celentano, ca. 1938.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Stamp Designs 1847-1892
Commemoratives, shown, 1898-1925
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Pilgrim Tercentenary 1920
Title Text
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George E. Perine copy of Edwin White, Signing of the Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower, hand-colored lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Title Text
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Philatelist-in-Chief, FDR
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National Parks & Exploration
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Lee-Jackson vs Susan B Anthony, 1936
Booker T Washington & Emancipation, 1940
Touring
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Philatelic truck at White House. Washington, D.C., May 9, 1939
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