Dug out of my collection A card from the National Gallery of Victoria to the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1978.

The stamps are gibbons 552a and 525. Interestingly, the VG perfins are inverted on the 25-cent stamp.

A brief article on the cover is at https://thebeardedphilatelist.ca/2023/08/28/Roy-Kiyooka-Card.html

#philately #postalhistory #stamocollecting

In today’s world of instantaneous text messages, emails, and video calls, it is easy to take reliable communication for granted. #History #AmericanCivilWar #Intelligence #PostalHistory #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/358/delivered-under-fire-absalom-markland-and-freedoms/

🇪🇪 Noch ein spannendes Postgebäude in Tallinn: Das zentrale Post- und Telegraphenamt in der Vene Straße 9. Kommunikationszentrum von 1918 bis 1991. Heute Luxushotel »Hotel Telegraaf«.

#postalhistory #mediahistory #eestipost

#StampCollecting #PostalHistory Here is the airmail cover, franked with a pair of 3 cent Jefferson Prexie booklet stamps and machine-canceled in Tower City, Pennsylvania on October 13, 1952.
Addressed to "General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Denver, Colorado." (Eisenhower's 1952 campaign had an office in Denver.)

Check out this beautiful advertising cover from Japan. 1966. Destination was Arcadia, California.
#postalhistory

…wenn man erst kurz überlegen muss, wie die Karte „funktioniert“: Paketboot- und Dampfschiffverbindungen Europa–überseeische Häfen, 1829 (Franz Raffelsperger) #postalhistory

Just a nice little #CivilWar patriotic cachet - one of my favorite items.

#philately
#postalhistory
#union
#secessionisunconstitutional

Geheime Post

#reading #postalhistory #mediahistory

How a small typo foiled a brilliant U.S. secret operation.

https://info.mysticstamp.com/this-day-in-history-february-5-1945/

#history #intelligenceoperation #sabotage #postalhistory

Close-up of the Tubman stamp from the 1995 Civil War commemorative series.

Depicted in a more active pose than the 1978 stamp, it is nevertheless disturbing to see this incredible woman coexisting on the same sheet of stamps and the same commemorative space as the white men who would fight to the death to deny her humanity and preserve their domination over her and those she helped to liberate.

#BlackHistoryMonth #PostalHistory #HarrietTubman #USPS

Later in the book, the authors scrutinize the 1995 32c Civil War commemorative stamps, in which former enslaved persons are depicted alongside enslavers.

While Tubman is described as an 'abolitionist' on text that appears on the back of the stamp, Robert E. Lee is described as a general and Jefferson Davis a 'President.'

Again, obfuscation and historical erasure is at play.

#BlackHistoryMonth #PostalHistory

On obfuscation in the design of the stamp:

"Although the figures on the wagon are presumably escaped slaves, the stamp's design makes their race and gender difficult to determine.... Alone as a visual artifact, the stamp fails to suggest the horrors of slavery or the promise of freedom. The wagon is not moving at all... and the ostensibly daytime scene conveys nothing of the nighttime strategies Tubman deployed."

- Goldblatt & Handler

#BlackHistoryMonth #PostalHistory

On February 1st, 1978, Harriet Tubman became the first African American woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp. The 13-cent stamp was the first in the iconic "Black Heritage" series, initiated in 1978.

Born into enslavement in 1822, Tubman, known as “the Moses of her people,” helped over 300 enslaved people escape to Canada through the network of routes and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #USHistory #PostalHistory #USPS #HarrietTubman

OK cool

#postalhistory #mediahistory #1965

#kitm #StampCollecting #PostalHistory
In the 19th century, the Clerk of the US House of Representatives enjoyed franking privilege. Here's an 1856 or '57 cover sent by William Cullom, Clerk of the House of Representatives for 34th Congress to the wife of Representative Howell Cobb.

- the cover
- the signature of "Wm Cullom Clk H' R' US"
- circular date stamp of "WASHINGTON Cy D. C. / SEP 23 / FREE"

Me: Let me look up what we can do in Innsbruck this weekend
Also me, a historian of #earlymodern postal networks five minutes later: Honey, guess what we are doing this weekend 😍

… this is literally the family branch whose papers I spent this last week at the archive reading. Unreasonably pumped! 📯
#postalhistory

Me: Let me look up what we can do in Innsbruck this weekend
Also me, a historian of #earlymodern postal networks five minutes later: Honey, guess what we are doing this weekend 😍

… this is literally the family branch whose papers I spent this last week at the archive reading. Unreasonably pumped! 📯
#postalhistory

Servus Regensburg! 5 Tage Archivaufenthalt in der Thurn und Taxis’schen Hofbibliothek auf Schloss St. Emmeram gehen zu Ende. Für mich sicher ein Highlight meiner Diss-Zeit. Viele tolle Funde gemacht und nette persönliche Begegnungen gehabt. Das Archivteam ist super und der Lesesaal mitten im Schloss war ein Traum. Freue mich, alles so sortieren, einzuordnen und aufzuschreiben.
#postalhistory #mediahistory #mediastudies #regensburg #andernach #histodons @histodons #postgeschichte

📯 Ab morgen bin ich für fünf Tage im privaten Hofarchiv der Thurn und Taxis, Schloss St. Emmeram Regensburg. Auf diesen Rechercheaufenthalt freue ich mich schon sehr lange. Heute schon ein bisschen die Stadt erkundet. Sehr schön hier!
#postalhistory #mediahistory #thurnundtaxis

I think what really makes me excited to tackle the second book project are the things I only notice because of the first. For example, here is Matthew Quester, Postmaster of the English Foreign Posts (about whom I have seen very few documents in England) testifying in a Venetian treason case 🤩 #postalhistory #intelligencehistory