Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, & the Post

Sheila A. Brennan, PhD

@SheilaABrennan

Thank you, National Postal Museum!

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.

Chicago Daily Tribune (Jan 1, 1898)

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Stamp Collecting for Women

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Ladies' Home Journal (March 1901) |  Godey's Lady's Book (1880)

American Philatelic Association (later Society)
founded 1886

Stamp Papers

Different Album Styles

Wannamaker & the Columbians (1892-93)

Post Office in American Life

Town Store and Post Office, artist, Daniel Celentano, ca. 1938.
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Stamp Designs 1847-1892

Commemoratives, shown, 1898-1925

Pilgrim Tercentenary 1920

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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

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Philatelist-in-Chief, FDR

National Parks & Exploration

Lee-Jackson vs Susan B Anthony, 1936

Booker T Washington & Emancipation, 1940

Touring

Philatelic truck at White House. Washington, D.C., May 9, 1939
(Library of Congress photo)

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Sheila A. Brennan, PhD

@SheilaABrennan