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Winton M. Blount Symposium on Postal History
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November 3-4, 2006
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Washington, D.C.
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Symposium Papers
Click hyperlinks below to view abstracts, papers and presentations.
More papers will be added in the upcoming weeks.
Friday, November 3, 2006
Allen Kane, Director, Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Dave E. Failor, Manager, Stamp Services, United States Postal Service
Ned Rifkin, Undersecretary for Art, Smithsonian Institution
The Honorable Paul Carlin [Paper] , Master of Ceremonies, former Postmaster General of the United States
The Honorable John Potter, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer
Winton M. Blount Award of Excellence to Murray B. Comarow [Paper]
Opening plenary panel “What Is Postal History?”
Peter C. Mastrangelo, Executive Director, American Philatelic Society / American Philatelic Research Library |
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Philatelic Perspective [Paper], Michael Laurence, Executive Director, Philatelic Foundation
Academic Perspective, Richard R. John, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Museum Perspective [Paper], John Willis, Historian, Canadian Postal Museum
Business Perspective [Paper], Maynard H. Benjamin, President and CEO, Envelope Manufacturers Association |
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Saturday, November 4, 2006
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Two Concurrent Panels |
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Panel 1
Postage Stamps, Progress, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Michael Laurence, Philatelic Foundation, Chair
Postage and Progressivism: Political Ideology and the Start of Postage Stamp Production at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1893-1894 [Paper]
Frank Noll, Historical Resource Center, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Images of Past Futures: World’s Fairs, Postage Stamps, and the Impact of Modernism [Paper]
Pam Overmann, Historical Resource Center, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Facing the Challenges of Change: Modernizing Postage Stamp Production at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the 1950s [Paper]
Cecilia Wertheimer, Historical Resource Center, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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Panel 2
Consumers, Recreation, and the Post
John Willis, Canadian Postal Museum, Chair
Petunias by Post: The Post Office and America's Nineteenth-Century Horticultural Boom [Paper]
Cheryl Lyon-Jenness, Western Michigan University
“Smith v. Hitchcock” (1912) and the Death of the Dime Novel [Paper]
Ryan K. Anderson, Purdue University
“Little Colored Bits of Paper” Collected in the Progressive Era [Paper]
Sheila A. Brennan, George Mason University
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Two Concurrent Panels |
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Panel 3
Defining the Public Role of the Post Office
Megaera M. Ausman, United States Postal Service, Chair
Seeds, Books, and Letters: The Categorization of Information in the 1874 Postal Debates
Gwynne K. Langley, University of Illinois at Chicago
The National Alliance of Postal Employees and the Beloved Community
Julie M. Boddy, Library of Congress
The Conflict about Preserving Small Rural Post Offices [Paper] [Presentation]
Robert Cohen, Postal Rate Commission (retired)
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Panel 4
Expanding Venues, Markets, and Technologies
Maynard H. Benjamin, Envelope Manufacturers Association, Chair
The Postal History of 19th Century Washington, D.C., Hotels
Peter Martin, American Philatelic Society
United States Airmail Rates, Routes, and Regulations to Africa, Asia, and Australia
Murray A. Abramson, The Collectors Club (NY)
Radio by Mail: Intersecting Network Forms in the History of Sound-On-Disc Transcriptions [Presentation]
Alexander Russo, The Catholic University of America
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Panel 5
The Mails in Times of War
Virginia L. Horn, American Philatelic Research Library, Chair
The Hazards of Military and Civilian Communications in Revolutionary America
Konstantin Dierks, Indiana University
The Medium is the Message: Union Civil War Patriotic Envelopes and their Impact, 1861-1865 [Paper]
Steven R. Boyd, University of Texas at San Antonio
What Can Philatelic Censuses Reveal about the Operation of Postal Systems in Wartime?
John Kevin Doyle, Benedictine University
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Panel 6
Creating a National Post
Richard R. John, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chair
The ‘Parliamentary Post’ and King William’s War
Daniel A. Piazza, Syracuse University
Heinrich von Stephan and the Unification of the German Postal System [Paper]
Stephen Economides, Berlin University of Applied Sciences
“Large and Difficult Problems”: The War Hero and the Rural Free Delivery He Made Possible [Paper] [Presentation]
Robert G. Cullen, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
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Panel 7
The Gold Mine of Official Register Data
Introduction [Paper | Handout]
Diane DeBlois, Ephemera Society, Chair
Providing Access [Presentation]
Michael O’Reilly, American Philatelic Society
Local Sources of Postal Revenue [Paper]
Robert Dalton Harris, Postal History Society
Statistical Analysis of Postmaster Compensation
Terrence Hines, Pace University
Vital Information for Economists, Political Scientists, and Sociologists [Paper]
Thomas Velk, McGill University
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Final remarks
Cheryl R. Ganz and Allison Marsh, Smithsonian National Postal Museum
David Straight, American Philatelic Society / American Philatelic Research Library |
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Contact:
For further information please email Allison Marsh at: marsha@si.edu
Media only: Allison Gallaway, Public Affairs Officer, 202.633.5509
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