Joseph Steinmetz and the U.S. Army's Round-the-World Flight of 1924
In 1923, the U.S. Army Air Service decided that it would attempt to become the first group to circumnavigate the globe by airplane. This...
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An Air Mail First in Milwaukee
On August 1, 1928, the U.S. Post Office Department lowered the airmail rate to 5-cents for the first ounce. This was a significant...
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A Daniel Webster "Free Frank" - No Devil But Plenty of Bird Poop
Daniel Webster (Figure 1) was a prominent lawyer and politician in the antebellum period. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives,...
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An Air Mail Plane Crash, John N. Luff, Harry Houdini: This Cover Has It All
I describe myself as an eclectic collector of postal history. I look for covers from any genre and era that have interesting stories to...
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The “Cheap Postage Movement” and the Advent of the First U.S. Postage Stamp
The 1844 U.S. presidential election between Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay was a nailbiter. Marked by controversies over slavery...
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