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Recent Significant Acquisitions : 2002
2002 Significant Acquisitions
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9-11-2001: Church Street Postal Station, World Trade Center
Twenty-six objects from the Church Street station—handstamps, registered mail ledger, letter carrier route assignment clipboard, mail sorting units and more—capture the U. S. Postal Service's now historic relationship with the Twin Towers.
The mail sorting units—last used by USPS employee, Emma Thornton, on September 11th—held compartments for Cantor Fitzgerald, Fred Alger, Met Life and Nishi Nippon Bank. In October 2001 museum staff toured the damaged Church Street site to select items from its ash-covered interior to be transferred to the Museum. For the full story behind these and other objects retrieved from the Church Street Station, see Collecting and Exhibiting a National Tragedy.
Donor: United States Postal Service, New York Metro Area Post Office
2002.2002
Image (at left, top):
Sorting unit 24D-3 from the postal station
Image (at left, bottom):
Satchel Cart used to distribute mail to WTC offices
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Wells Fargo "Virginia City Pony" Express Cover
The cover illustrates the early use of the 1862–1865 Wells, Fargo & Company service—also referred to as the "Virginia City Pony" service—which ran from San Francisco via Sacramento and Carson City to Virginia City, Nevada. This service, that was different from the short-lived transcontinental Pony Express, specialized in the quick delivery of important business letters and newspapers between the gold and silver mining areas of Nevada and California business centers. The cover was created by pasting the front top portion of a 3-cent 1861 stamped envelope (Scott U34) onto the front of a plain envelope. It also bears the 25-cent 1862 Wells Fargo stamp (Scott 143LU3) and the company's blue cancel postmarked Virginia City, Nevada Territory.
Donor: Diane Fisk Arney
2002.2004
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