Curator Nancy A. Pope shared the dangerous and fascinating story of early experimental airmail flights on February 18, 2011, the centennial of the Wiseman-Cooke flight from Petaluma to Santa Rosa, California. From 1911 to 1914, postmasters across ...

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Robert P. Odenweller, recipient of many philatelic awards, spoke as part of the 9th annual Maynard Sundman lecture on February 5, 2011. Located halfway around the globe from precious stamp-making supplies, New Zealand's postal service used ing...

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Author Philip F. Rubio discussed his book "There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality." On November 7, 1940, just two days after the election that President Franklin D. ...

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Eric Jaffe discussed his book "The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America." From its earliest days as the country's first postal route to the current era, the Boston Post Road has carried not jus...

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Historian Charles Verge, is past-president of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada and the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors, curator of the Canadian National Stamp Collection, a prolific writer, exhibitor, and judge. He has written ...

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Going beyond the basics of stamp collecting, Janet Klug, past president of the American Philatelic Society and member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, is your guide to topical stamp collecting.

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Geoffrey Parker, great grandson of George S. Parker, founder of Parker Pen Company, shares memories of discussing pen design around the dinner table in Janesville, Wisconsin. From the creative business techniques that made the company so successf...

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Frances Perkins was the only woman in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet and one of his close friends. As an architect of the New Deal, she designed the mechanisms the country uses to recover from financial calamity and created the social s...

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During the Great Depression, the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Pony Express captivated public attention. Boy Scouts carried mail along the trail route and presented it to President Roosevelt, who said This is something fine to add to ...

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The Pony Express may be 150 years old, but the celebration continues! Speakers from the National Pony Express Association, Inc. discuss how they honor the Pony Express today. Find out about the 1983 Slide Ride when members of the organization sadd...

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On August 19, 2009 Smithsonian National Postal Museum curator Nancy A Pope interviews Railway Post Office clerks, Bill Healey, Aubrey Booth and Gayle Hagy, about life on the rails.

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On August 19, 2009 Smithsonian National Postal Museum curator Nancy A. Pope interviewed Railway Post Office clerks, Charles Patton, Richard Harvey, Otho Mitterer and Robert Coleman. They shared humorous stories of railway hijinks, pranks, and dail...

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On August 19, 2009 Smithsonian National Postal Museum curator Nancy A Pope interviews Railway Post Office clerk Robert Butler.

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On August 19, 2009 Curator Nancy A Pope interviews two former Railway Post Office clerks, Donald Peters and John Sipko.

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On August 19, 2009 former Railway Post Office clerks, Greg Lowell, Donald Bliss and Gerald Lange were interviewed by Smithsonian National Postal Museum Curator Nancy A. Pope shared the ups and downs of life on the rails.

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On August 19, 2009 Smithsonian National Postal Museum curator Nancy A Pope interviews Railway Post Office clerk Joseph Gomez.

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On March 18, 1970, Local 36 of New York City's National Association of Letter Carriers began a wildcat strike protesting low pay and poor job advancement. Postal workers in more than 30 cities joined the strike, crippling businesses nationwide. Pr...

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In 19th-century England, letters were one of the few ways to communicate. But most people dreaded the postmans knock.

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In 19th-century England, letters were one of the few ways to communicate. But most people dreaded the postmans knock. Postage was high, and the receiver, not the sender, had to pay for the letter. As Dr. Catherine Golden writes in her new book Pos...

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On April 12, 1939, a bright red Stinson Reliant plane swooped out of the Pennsylvania sky, snatching a container of mail suspended on a rope between two poles. "Air pick-up" was invented by a dentist and part-time inventor to provide airmail to to...

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Skidmore College Professor of English, Catherine Golden an expert on Victorian literature and 19th-century illustration and women writers has written a new book that examines the impact of England's launch of the Penny Post in the early 19th centu...

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A talk on NPMs virtual museum Arago and hands on history through stamps and postal objects by Alexander Haimann at Saks Middle School, Anniston, Alabama, April 29, 2009.

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Fifty years ago, the US Navy and Post Office Department placed 3,000 letters in a missile on board the USS Barbero submarine and aimed it at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Mayport, Florida. In this slideshow presentation, curator Nancy A. Pope...

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"Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War" presented by Eliot A. Landau, The Seventh Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, March 7, 2009, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through a donati...

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Green Ways to Move the Mail: A challenge for the New Century Thursday, March 20, 2008 At the National Postal Museum "Learn from the past and face the challenges of the future: the USPS point of view" presented by Wayne Corey Vehicle Operations Ma...

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Green Ways to Move the Mail: A challenge for the New Century Thursday, March 20, 2008 At the National Postal Museum From current to future technologies, you will hear what technologies may be delivering the mail in the future presented by Gerald ...

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Green Ways to Move the Mail: A challenge for the New Century Thursday, March 20, 2008 At the National Postal Museum "Can we reverse the trend of increasing atmospheric CO2 and avert climate catastrophe?" presented by Dr. Bert Drake, Senior Scient...

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Green Ways to Move the Mail: A challenge for the New Century Thursday, March 20, 2008 At the National Postal Museum Presented by Nancy A. Pope Historian & Curator Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Nancy Pope has worked with the items in this c...

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A presentation by Alexander Haimann at The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington, DC, April 18, 2009.

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"The Legendary Grinnel Missionaries" presented by David Beech, The Second Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 11, 2003, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through a donation ...

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"The Royal Philatelic Collection: An Inside View" presented by Michael Sefi, The Third Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 16, 2004, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 throug...

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"Second Purpose" presented by Roger Brody, The Fourth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 15, 2005, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through a donation by his sons, David a...

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"The Miller Collection and The Era of Private Bank Note Company Stamps 1842-1892" presented by Scott Trepel, The Fifth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 21, 2006, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Serie...

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"100 Greatest American Stamps" presented by Janet Klug and Donald Sundman, The Sixth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, February 9, 2008, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through ...

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"The Legendary Grinnel Missionaries" presented by David Beech, The Second Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 11, 2003, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through a donation ...

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"The Royal Philatelic Collection: An Inside View" presented by Michael Sefi, The Third Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 16, 2004, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 throug...

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"Second Purpose" presented by Roger Brody, The Fourth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 15, 2005, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through a donation by his sons, David a...

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"The Miller Collection and The Era of Private Bank Note Company Stamps 1842-1892" presented by Scott Trepel, The Fifth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 21, 2006, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Serie...

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"100 Greatest American Stamps" presented by Janet Klug and Donald Sundman, The Sixth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, February 9, 2008, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through ...

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"Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War" presented by Eliot A. Landau, The Seventh Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, March 7, 2009, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through a donati...

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"The First Canada-US Joint Issue: The 1959 St. Lawrence Seaway Commemorative and its Famous Invert" presented by Charles Verge, The Eighth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, September 19, 2010, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard...

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Robert P. Odenweller, recipient of many philatelic awards, spoke as part of the 9th annual Maynard Sundman lecture on February 5, 2011. Located halfway around the globe from precious stamp-making supplies, New Zealand's postal service used ing...

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