This cover was postmarked in Augusta, Georgia on June 6, 1944. That was the date Allied forces landed at Normandy, a day known as...

(This article was published in the Airpost Journal, April 2024, Vol. 95, No. 4, Whole No. 1126, pp. 144-146. A PDF of the published...

Not many American companies can trace back their roots more than 200 years. DuPont is one of those. Organized in 1802 in Delaware - where...

This first day cover from 1932 has a lot going on. Let's start with the stamps. On January 1, 1932, in celebration of George Washington's...

In addition to fighting on the land, in the air, and on the sea during World War 2, the combatants also were engaged in a propaganda war...

While World War 1 was still raging in Europe in mid-1918, President Woodrow Wilson decided to send American troops to Siberia. Russia was...

World War 1 - "The Great War" or "The War to End All Wars"- was a bloody, awful affair. Estimates range from 15 to 22 million military...

We take for granted the delivery of mail to our home and business addresses, but that was not always the case, especially in rural areas....

First Day Covers (FDCs) are a popular collecting item. Some collectors focus on a single stamp and acquire as many different cachets as...

The Pfister Hotel is a luxury hotel in Milwaukee. The vision of businessman Guido Pfister and his son, Charles, the Pfister was dubbed...

The Post Office began to transport mail via plane, i.e., "airmail," as early as 1911, but official airmail service didn't commence until...

As a stamp collector, it's fun to come upon correspondence between renown philatelists of the past. One such cover in my collection was...

The Schuyler J. Rumsey Philatelic Auction on August 26, 2022, had the following lot for sale: 1909, 2¢ Alaska-Yukon, imperf. Tied, along...

Someone at Pabst Brewing sent this envelope to William J. Langson, Secretary of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce on April 17, 1900. The...

Both my father and grandfather worked their entire careers on the assembly line and as inspectors at the Allis Chalmers factory in West...