Smithsonian National Postal Museum
How Commerce and Industry Shaped the Mails


Schedule
2011 Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium
 
       
  Friday, September 16, 2011
       
  James Alsop   8:30   Mail Carriers and Disease Carriers: The North American Railway Postal System and the Smallpox Epidemic of 1885  
  Marjory J. Sente   8:50   No Fries ’Til Mail—How tourism brought mail service to the Grand Canyon  
  Robert G. Rufe   9:10   The U.S. Special Handling Service - “Live Chicks” - And so much more - Require First Class Treatment  
  Arthur H. Groten M.D.   9:30   Promotion of Air Mail in the U.S. by Government and Industry  
      9:50   Questions and Answers  
      10:00   End  
       
  David Crotty   2:00   The Postage Meter Tops Off Mail Preparation  
  Gordon Trotter   2:20   Commerce and the Mails in the Early Nineteenth Century  
  Sarah A. Johnson, Ph.D.   2:40   The Standardization of American Mail Order, 1860-1900  
  David L. Straight   3:00 Order No. 10 – Post Office Protection of the Express Cartel  
      3:20   Questions and Answers  
      3:00   End  
       
  Saturday, September 17, 2011  
             
  Dan Gifford, Ph.D.   8:30   How Postcards Saved The Rural Free Delivery  
  Erick Lee Erickson, Ph.D. 8:50 Stamp Cancellations at a Rural Post Office in the 1940’s  
  Katherine Miller   9:10   Antebellum Transformations in Postal Architecture  
  Andrew Oleksiuk 9:30 Postal History and Network Art  
  9:50 Questions and Answers  
      10:00   End  
   
  Harry K. Charles, Jr., Ph. D   2:00   Parcel Post Postage Due Stamps  
  Robert Harris
and Diane Deblois
  2:20   “It’s in the Bag” – The Shape of Turn-of-the-Century Mail  
  Terence Hines
and Thomas Velk
  2:40   Role of the US Postal Money Order System in the Creation of the Mail Order Business  
  Richard D. Martorelli   3:00   Business Reply Mail Service  
      3:20   Questions and Answers  
      3:00   End  
             
  David Hochfelder   8:00   Keynote Speaker
Commerce, Industry, and Communications
 
     

Conference co‐chairs are David L. Straight, Tara Murray and Thomas Lera.
Please e‐mail questions to NPMResearchChair@si.edu.

Sponsored by
American Philatelic Society, American Philatelic Research Library
Smithsonian National Postal Museum

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