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The Museum has created research guides for collections that are frequently
accessed or that have additional research potential. These guides provide concise
descriptions of the scope and content, provenance and list of materials for each collection.
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Two guides were prepared in the 1990s; more will be created and added to the site.
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The Benjamin B. Lipsner Airmail Collection
Lipsner's career as First Superintendent of the United States Air Mail Service and his personal collection of documents, photos and other items from that time are summarized here.
Image (at left):
Lipsner gives an American flag to pilot Max Miller prior to the first air mail flight from
Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Philadelphia, 1918.
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1847 Federal Postage Stamp Correspondence
Forty-five handwritten communications between the printing firm Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, the Postmaster General and Assistant Postmaster Generals and others relate the history behind the production, sale and use of the first federal stamps.
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