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December 2010: John Lennon’s First Album
The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has a rare album of John Lennon’s—his boyhood stamp album.
by Owen Edwards |
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May 2010: A Rare Pony Express Artifact
A Rare Pony Express Artifact: A letter that took two years to reach its destination evokes the hazards of the Pony Express.
by Owen Edwards |
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November 2009: From the Castle - FDR's Stamps
A National Postal Museum exhibition includes postage stamps that President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped design.
by G. Wayne Clough |
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August 2006: Stale Mail
Stale Mail: The nation's first hot-air balloon postal deliveries barely got off the ground.
by Owen Edwards |
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September 2005: John Lennon's First Album
A recently acquired stamp collection opens a new page on the teenage Beatle-to-be.
by Owen Edwards |
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February 2004: Special Delivery
In the 1900s, health officials believed that puncturing supposedly disease-infested mail and then fumigating it slowed the spread of illness.
by Ed Leibowitz |
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May 2002: We’ve Got Mail
You expect to see stamps in the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum, and there are indeed tens of thousands of them—American and international, beautiful and rare.
By Lawrence M. Small, Secretary |
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July 2000: No Return Address
To the "detectives" who solve the mysteries of errant mail, every letter is a human tale.
By Sue Allison |
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October 1998: Dispatches from the Past
An exhibition at the Postal Museum commemorates the centennial of the Klondike/Alaska gold rush.
By I. Michael Heyman, Secretary |
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January 1998: Stamps – What an Idea!
New commemoratives look like our first stamps, which were slow to catch on in 1847.
By John Ross |
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October 1997: Pushing the Envelope
At the National Postal Museum, envelopes are as critical a part of history as the letters inside.
By Michael Kernan |
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July 1996: The Object at Hand – The Inverted Jenny
How an upside-down biplane on a 24-cent stamp, now on display at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, seemed to jinx early attempts at carrying the mail by air.
By Edwards Park |
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June 1995: Around the Mall & Beyond
In 1939 Moritz Schoenberger, a Hungarian Jew living in Vienna, wanted to join his family in America. His ordeal as a refugee aboard the S.S. St. Louis is told at the National Postal Museum...
By Michael Kernan |
