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Celebrating 50 Years of Airmail Service to Bermuda
Update: This post was published in First Days , July-August 2024, pp. 60-69. The layout by editor Martin Kent Miller is fantastic. I...
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V-Mail and "Free" Franks from World War II, 1944
During World War II, just like every conflict from the Civil War forward, the delivery of mail from the home front to the battlefield and...
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Trans-Pacific Mail to New Zealand and Australia Early 1940s
One of the major milestones in postal history was the establishment of transpacific airmail routes. The first route to be established was...
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Two Letters to Charles Earl Carpenter, Ice Baron, 1844 and Circa 1863
We take ice for granted. As Amy Brady writes in Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks - A Cool History of a Hot Commodity, "Ice is...
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A Civil War-era Fancy Cancel - Oh Yeah, and a Heartfelt Letter from a Union Soldier
[Note: This post was published in the Fourth Quarter 2024 Kelleher's Stamp Collector's Quarterly .] When it comes to Civil War postal...
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