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Private John R. Rion (pictured here circa 1941) inadvertently left a mark on postal history by mailing an envelope from ...
12/08/2022

Private John R. Rion (pictured here circa 1941) inadvertently left a mark on postal history by mailing an envelope from Honolulu, Hawaii, postmarked on December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

On December 6, 1941, Rion dropped an oversize envelope at the Honolulu post office, destined for a friend back home in Perry, Iowa with whom Rion owned a barber shop. The next morning, the Honolulu post office cancelled Rion’s envelope at 8 a.m., the exact time that Japanese torpedo planes struck nearby Pearl Harbor and the unprepared U.S. Navy battleship force.

The harbor filled with flames and smoke as Japanese bombs sank five of eight battleships and destroyed other ships and combat planes. Over 2,400 Americans died. The unprecedented air raid led to America’s declaration of war on Japan and the mobilization of American troops to the Pacific front.

Rion served in action in Hawaii, Mariana Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands before receiving an honorable discharge and returning to Perry, Iowa (northwest of Des Moines), to continue barbering for fifty years. He died in 2006, and his estate donated this historical cover to the National Postal Museum. This envelope is one of the very few surviving examples documenting this defining moment in world history.

"Dear Mom … Thanks For The Cookies. The One I Had Was Fine!"Happy ! Fellow soldiers steal cookies from another soldier's...
12/05/2022

"Dear Mom … Thanks For The Cookies. The One I Had Was Fine!"

Happy ! Fellow soldiers steal cookies from another soldier's mail in this 1942 cartoon cachet by American Art Service of Chicago, Illinois. This soldier's cover was sent without charge (and therefore without a stamp!) under military free franking from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

During both World Wars, companies and welfare organizations and printed topical envelopes ranging from lighthearted to sentimental to vehemently patriotic.

Tomorrow—Saturday, December 3—from 11am – 4pm at the National Postal Museum, join us for a special program exploring the...
12/03/2022
Super Stamps and the Season of Giving

Tomorrow—Saturday, December 3—from 11am – 4pm at the National Postal Museum, join us for a special program exploring the themes of community action and caring for others using a variety of performances and hands-on activities! Through the United States Postal Service’s philanthropic semipostal stamp program, learn more about how you can help support positive social change during the season of giving. Stamps

We will be joined by collaborators from the National Museum of American History, National Portrait Gallery USA, Smithsonian Science Education Center, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, National Museum of the United States Army, and National Guard Memorial Museum.

Registration is not required for this free, all-ages event; visit the link for a full schedule of events!

Visit and participate in activities that highlight postal efforts to use small, collective actions as a positive force for change.

The Postal Service joined the American Association for World Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and The Points of ...
12/02/2022

The Postal Service joined the American Association for World Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and The Points of Light Foundation in raising awareness about AIDS with the issuance of a 29-cent commemorative stamp on December 1, 1993, in Washington, DC., in conjunction with World AIDS Day. is an organized effort designed to provide education and awareness on issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. The stamp features a red ribbon that symbolizes compassion and awareness.

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Now that  is wrapping up, how did your ‘stache turn out? Hopefully better that of John K. Giles! Per curatorial document...
12/01/2022

Now that is wrapping up, how did your ‘stache turn out? Hopefully better that of John K. Giles! Per curatorial documentation, Giles was wearing a fake moustache as a disguise during his 1935 attempted robbery of the Denver and Rio Grande Western mail train as it passed through Salt Lake City, Utah. Records state: “Half of the moustache fell off during the robbery attempt; he was wearing this other half when he was captured.”

Giles had already escaped an Oregon prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder when he tried to rob the mail train. After his second arrest, he was transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary which was considered escape-proof. Nevertheless, Giles absconded via a stolen uniform on an Army steam ferry, although he was immediately detained when he reached land in San Francisco.

The approximately 3 x 4” mustache-half is mounted on nylon board.

We are so grateful to everyone who supported the National Postal Museum for Giving Tuesday! Together, we’ll be able to s...
12/01/2022

We are so grateful to everyone who supported the National Postal Museum for Giving Tuesday! Together, we’ll be able to share even more stories about through our philatelic and postal history collections. The generosity of people like you is what makes all this and more possible – thank you for believing in us! https://postalmuseum.si.edu/support

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Have you helped your favorite organizations this Giving Tuesday? The National Postal Museum needs the support of lifelon...
11/30/2022

Have you helped your favorite organizations this Giving Tuesday? The National Postal Museum needs the support of lifelong learners like you to make our critical work possible! Together, we can fuel discovery and wonder today and for future generations. Giving Tuesday is coming to a close, but there’s still time to make your impact: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/support

This year, the National Postal Museum launched its Guest Artist program with artist Rafael Lopez. Lopez used his time as...
11/29/2022

This year, the National Postal Museum launched its Guest Artist program with artist Rafael Lopez. Lopez used his time as the museum's first Guest Artist to highlight topics with program participants such as the historic lack of representation on stamps, the realities of living with disabilities or physical challenges, and the importance of perseverance.

The Guest Artist program is just one of the important projects we’re able to take on each year because of the generosity of people like you. What innovation and discovery will you inspire next? Make your Giving Tuesday gift to keep moving our mission forward: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/support

Today is Giving Tuesday, an opportunity to give back to the organizations you value most! Did you know that the National...
11/29/2022

Today is Giving Tuesday, an opportunity to give back to the organizations you value most! Did you know that the National Postal Museum needs the support of curious, caring people like you to make our work possible? Your gift today will fuel education, research, digitization, and so much more! Together, we can preserve and share America’s story through our postal and philatelic collections, inspiring lifelong learners everywhere. Pledge your support at the link: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/support

Tomorrow - Tuesday, November 29 at 11am ET - join National Postal Museum educators for a bilingual story time program hi...
11/28/2022

Tomorrow - Tuesday, November 29 at 11am ET - join National Postal Museum educators for a bilingual story time program highlighting themes from the exhibit Baseball: America's Home Run. Sessions will be interactive and last approximately 45 minutes. Caregivers should remain with children for the duration of the program. This program is targeted for ages 3-6 but all are welcome.

Mañana - martes 29 de noviembre a las 11 a.m. ET - únase a los educadores del Museo Postal Nacional para un programa bilingüe de cuentos que destaca los temas de la exhibición Béisbol: Las sesiones serán interactivas y durarán aproximadamente 45 minutos. Los cuidadores deben permanecer con los niños durante la duración del programa. El Jonrón de los EE.UU. Este programa está dirigido a niños de 3 a 6 años, pero todos son bienvenidos.

Happy Thanksgiving! Beloved artist Norman Rockwell used his Vermont neighbors as models for this painting, which was ada...
11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving! Beloved artist Norman Rockwell used his Vermont neighbors as models for this painting, which was adapted for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1994.

In his 1941 State of the Union address, President Roosevelt outlined what he considered four universal freedoms that would see the nation through World War II: the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and the freedom from fear. Rockwell decided to depict these ideas in his art to galvanize the American people.

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The National Postal Museum is responsible for the preservation of over 6,000 works of art that constitute the Postmaster...
11/22/2022

The National Postal Museum is responsible for the preservation of over 6,000 works of art that constitute the Postmaster General Stamp Art Collection held by the United States Postal Service. An ongoing program of surveying, repairing, and rehousing the stamp art ensures that these objects are available for future research and exhibition. A recent transfer of stamp art included these delicate paintings of bonsai trees created by John Dawson for the Bonsai Forever Stamp Series issued on January 23, 2012. Check out the photographs to learn more about the preservation treatment!

A few spots are still available for Virtual Story Time on Monday, November 21 at 11am ET…register your young learner at ...
11/20/2022

A few spots are still available for Virtual Story Time on Monday, November 21 at 11am ET…register your young learner at the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/story-time-with-the-national-postal-museum-registration-141338917507

To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, we’ll read “Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest” by Gerald McDermott and talk about the newest raven postage stamp!

Recommended for ages 4-7, but—as always—all are welcome!

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Stephen Mopope (1898-1974)—given name Qued Koi (“Painted Robe”)—of the Kiowa tribe was born on the Kiowa Reservation, In...
11/19/2022

Stephen Mopope (1898-1974)—given name Qued Koi (“Painted Robe”)—of the Kiowa tribe was born on the Kiowa Reservation, Indian Territory in southwestern Oklahoma. Demonstrating artistic ability as a young child, Mopope’s skills further developed during his time a Federally mandated mission school despite receiving minimal art education. Mopope and a handful of other Kiowa youths were introduced to the Director of the Art program at the University of Oklahoma, who nurtured their talent. Mopope and his fellow students celebrated the traditions and motifs of their culture, developing a new artistic style in the process. The “Flat style,” was named for its lack of lack of depth, which held the historical integrity of hide and tipi paintings used to record tribal events and became the most recognizable and defined style of Native American artists until the 1960.

In 1936, Mopope was selected to contribute to a nation-wide initiative tied to President Roosevelt’s New Deal which called for 1,600 murals and sculptures illustrative of the “American Experience” to be installed in post offices across the country. Around 400 of these murals include representations of American Indians, although few were created by indigenous artists. Mopope created several murals, including “Two Eagle Dancers,” a vibrant painting highlighting the spiritual connection to tradition. He took inspiration from the traditional hide and tipi paintings customary to the Kiowa to create a modern day hide painting. Mopope was influenced through his experiences as not only an artist, but as an accomplished dancer and flute player providing another way of expressing himself through his culture.

Two Eagle Dancers is an example of an aspect of Kiowa culture adopted from the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. As the Kiowa migrated south (likely originating in Canada) during the 16th and 17th centuries, they adopted aspects of culture from other tribes in regions now known as Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas such as the sacred sun dance and the horse. The eagle dance has roots in Pueblo culture, which the Kiowa would have experienced when they settled in the Texas Panhandle and Central Oklahoma where they reside today.

In addition to post office murals, Mopope was commissioned to paint several large-scale works in the U.S. Department of the Interior building, which also housed the Bureau of Indian Affairs. His work has been accessioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center (NY), the Peabody Essex Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and dozens more.

Two Eagle Dancers by Stephen Mopope in on view in the Anadarko, Oklahoma Post Office.
Used with the permission of the United States Postal Service®.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) conference goers are invited to join the Postal Mus...
11/17/2022
Annual Conference

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) conference goers are invited to join the Postal Museum at 3pm on Thursday, November 17 with partners National Museum of American History, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture for "Bring the Smithsonian to Your Classroom: How to Use the Learning Lab!"

Please visit the link for more information.

Gathering early childhood educators from around the globe to connect, collaborate, and learn together.

Happy Veterans Day to all those who have served. For your bravery, hard work, and dedication, we thank you and honor you...
11/12/2022

Happy Veterans Day to all those who have served. For your bravery, hard work, and dedication, we thank you and honor you.

During WWII, about 33,000 second-generation Japanese Americans – called “Nisei” – enlisted in the US Armed Forces to help the war effort & demonstrate loyalty to their country. These men & women served heroically at a time when Japanese Americans faced prejudice, discrimination, & mass incarceration in internment camps on American soil. Some of these enlistees formed one of the most decorated US Army fighting units during the war – the all-Japanese 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team. The motto of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was “Go for Broke,” which is printed on this forthcoming commemorative stamp. The design is based on a photo taken in 1944 in France of Hawaiian-born Shiroku Yamamoto of the 442nd.

Although the “Go For Broke” motto originated with the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team, it is now commonly associated with all the Japanese American men & women who served during WWII. The majority served in the 100th/442nd RCT, Military Intelligence Service , 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion, Women’s Army Corps, Cadet Nurse Corps, & Army Nurse Corps. Among over 18,000 awards, the Japanese American WWII soldiers earned 21 Medals of Honor, 9 Presidential Unit Citations, & 9,486 Purple Hearts. Notably, testimony of Nisei veterans before Congress was key in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which acknowledged wartime bias against Japanese Americans & set precedent for future wartime protections of Americans.

Issued June 2021, the stamp was made possible due to the efforts of the “Stamp Our Story” campaign. The initiative was started in 2005 by three California Nisei women who each endured incarceration in US detention camps during the war: Fusa Takahashi, Aiko O. King, & the late Chiz Ohira. (Both Takahasi & King are widows of Japanese American WWII veterans.) These women campaigned tirelessly for 15 years, rallying support nationwide, as well as from French citizens & officials from towns liberated from German forces by Nisei soldiers during WWII.

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Today is Election Day! Some of the eligible voters from Highland County, Ohio were not at home for the state election in...
11/09/2022

Today is Election Day! Some of the eligible voters from Highland County, Ohio were not at home for the state election in 1864. Service with the Union army had brought them to Atlanta, Georgia. However, with a recent provision enacted by the Ohio legislature, they were able to vote absentee. This pre-printed envelope contained a tally sheet of votes from the soldiers of Highland County at the Field Hospital 2nd Division 23rd Army Corps. The war ballots for this state election included seats for congressional representatives and the secretary of state. The absentee vote in this election made up nine percent of the vote.

During the Civil War, many states extended the vote to military personnel stationed outside of their home districts. Precedents dated to Pennsylvania's 1813 legislation during the War of 1812 (reenacted in 1839) and New Jersey in 1815. Between 1861 and 1862, six of the eleven Confederate states granted absentee balloting for the military. For Northern states, the question about voting rose as the sheer number of soldiers and sailors increased.

In June 1862, Missouri was the first in the Union to make allowances. The issue gained urgency in anticipation of the 1864 national election, which included the presidential race between incumbent Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democratic candidate George McClellan, and other Union states followed suit. Mailing proxy votes, ballots or tally sheets was part of the 1864 absentee voting procedures for Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Soldiers and sailors voted in camps and hospitals under onsite inspection by appointed clerks or state officials.

During virtual Story Time on Monday, November 7 at 11am ET, we’ll be featuring the true story of our old friend: Owney t...
11/06/2022

During virtual Story Time on Monday, November 7 at 11am ET, we’ll be featuring the true story of our old friend: Owney the dog. After a reading of “A Lucky Dog: Owney, U.S. Rail Mail Mascot” by Dirk Wales, we will explore several Owney objects from the museum’s collection, including tags he was gifted on his travels and his 2011 postage stamp! Register your young learner at the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/story-time-with-the-national-postal-museum-registration-141338917507

Happy Halloween! Released in 1974, this haunting stamp from the “American Folklore” series commemorates Washington Irvin...
11/01/2022

Happy Halloween! Released in 1974, this haunting stamp from the “American Folklore” series commemorates Washington Irving’s famed folk tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” which was published in 1819. The stamp was first issued in North Tarrytown, New York, where the gothic tragicomedy takes place.

Beginning in 1966, the “American Folklore” series highlighted various works and individuals considered uniquely precious to the American identity. Other subjects included John Chapman (also known as Johnny Appleseed), Davy Crockett, and Daniel Boone.

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We will need a bit of luck and research magic to find the source and date of this seasonal “Popcorn Witches” recipe! The...
10/26/2022

We will need a bit of luck and research magic to find the source and date of this seasonal “Popcorn Witches” recipe! The clipping was saved in a postal account book used by two postmasters, Mrs. Lou Slade and Miss Mary Slade. Most of the clippings are recipes from about 1890 to 1950 when the Slades were postmasters in Rocheport, Missouri. Our digitization project will not only make these images accessible, but it will also hopefully help us identify from where they collected and saved recipes.

With the support of the American Women’s History Initiative, we have undertaken a research and digitization project to find out more of what’s on record in two post office account books from the first half of the twentieth century. Although the phrase “account book” might sound officious, these volumes contain many stories about the people who ran rural post offices and the communities they served. Follow along with us over the next several months as we uncover these hidden histories.

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Thank you so much for the Valentine card project! We are having lots of fun decorating our cards.
Thank you so much for the wonderful Valentine’s Day card kits! Lucas and Dominic loved putting theirs together 😍
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Solano Chronicles, Dec. 20, 2020

By Brendan Riley

The loot taken in Solano County’s only mail train robbery wasn’t much – $14 in cash and a small silver spoon found in stolen registered mail pouches – but the daring April 16, 1910, hold-up by two masked gunmen made headlines around the country, including the front page of the New York Times.

Three months later, on July 15, a Sacramento constable arrested two men suspected of stealing a bale of hay. Three revolvers found in their wagon linked them to the late-night train robbery near Benicia, and Joseph C. Brown and Charles Dunbar Bishop eventually confessed. By late August they were starting 45-year prison terms.

Here’s a detailed account, drawn from various 1910 newspaper stories and a few columns written in later years, of the carefully planned robbery:

Brown and Bishop had holed up in an abandoned shack near Benicia and, with high-powered field glasses, had been watching the mail trains come and go for days. They knew that eastbound trains took a few minutes to pick up speed after leaving a ferry that hauled them across the Carquinez Strait. The night of the robbery, they stowed away on one of those slow-moving trains. At a remote spot between Benicia and Suisun, they emerged from hiding, pointed their guns at Jack Marsh, the engineer, and Jim Blakely, his fireman, and ordered them to stop the locomotive.

Marsh and Blakely then were marched back to the mail car, where two clerks were forced to throw out registered mail sacks. One clerk started to toss out sacks filled with newspapers but the robbers detected the ruse and threatened to kill him unless he handed over the registered mail sacks. The crewmen were then ordered to put the pouches in the engine cab and unhook the locomotive.

The robbers took off in the engine, stopped a couple of miles down the tracks at a bridge over Goodyear Slough and unloaded the pouches into a small boat. Then the engine was turned loose, with the throttle wide open.

As the locomotive passed the station at Suisun, the station operator saw it was running wild and alerted dispatchers, who ordered that the engine be shunted onto a siding at Tolenas, several miles down the line. The engine, almost out of steam, ran onto the siding and rammed into two boxcars. Had it not been switched from the main line, it would have run into a westbound passenger train that had stopped at Tolenas.

While railway employees rushed to prevent a train collision, the robbers rowed from the slough to a point just east of Martinez, across the Carquinez Strait from Benicia, and made their getaway in a stolen horse and buggy. They hid out near Mount Diablo for a couple of days, and then went to Los Angeles.

Investigators found a shotgun and other weapons abandoned by the robbers as they made their escape, and learned that the shotgun had been stolen from a Riverside, Calif., store. There were other clues, along with a $5,000 reward offered by Southern Pacific for information, but the trail had gone cold – until the July 15 arrest of Brown and Bishop in Sacramento by Constable Michael Judge. Authorities determined that the three handguns found in their wagon also had been stolen from the same Riverside store. The two men immediately became the prime suspects in the train robbery case.

Brown was the first to crack under questioning, admitting four days after his arrest to the gun thefts, the train robbery and other crimes. He also implicated Bishop, who held out but a few days later also confessed. A Sacramento Bee account stated that Bishop was “highly incensed at Brown for making the confession and has on several occasions since being in jail here intimated to some of his jail mates that if an opportunity presented itself that he would do Brown bodily harm.”

On Aug. 22, the two men appeared before Solano County Superior Court Judge A.J. Buckles in Fairfield and entered guilty pleas to the train robbery. Several witnesses were called, including the mail clerks on the train, Tom Clancy and Herbert Block; and Constable Judge from Sacramento. The constable eventually collected a total reward of $10,000, or $5,000 per man, for the arrests and convictions of Brown and Bishop.

Judge Buckles was prepared to impose 50-year sentences on Brown and Bishop but reduced the time after the county prosecutor, District Attorney Joseph Raines, said the pair had confessed and thereby saved the county time and money had the case gone to trial. The judge “stated that he was convinced that they were criminals of the first water and that they deserved no leniency,” the Oakland Tribune reported. “The limit, he stated, was not too good for them, but he believed that 45 years would serve the ends of justice.”

Bishop was sent to San Quentin Prison, was paroled in late 1919 and eventually returned to his hometown, New Haven, Conn.. Brown was sent to Folsom Prison but escaped from a prison convict work gang near San Andreas in May 1917 and was never apprehended.

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Vallejo and other Solano County communities are treasure troves of early-day California history. The “Solano Chronicles” column, running every other Sunday, highlights various aspects of that history. My source references are available upon request. If you have local stories or photos to share, email me at [email protected]. You can also send any material care of the Times-Herald, 420 Virginia St.; or the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, 734 Marin St., Vallejo 94590.
Today in History: American diplomat Hiram Bingham IV was born on July 17, 1903, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bingham was featured as part of the Distinguished American Diplomats Series at the Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition.
(Thanks! Autograph by Art Director: Howard E. Paine from Delaplane, VA)
I love the US Postal Museum!
A bit of a postal history lesson for these times from the RI Philatelic Society. Back in the early 1920's, just after the Influenza epidemic, authorities were required to report communicable diseases via postal cards!
My Mom (Marguerite Schroeder) worked at the Washington DC Post Office in the Registered Mail Department in 1947-1948. Last week I toured the National Postal Museum in her honor. Thought you'd enjoy this photo from her archives
collectors, please check out this group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ZeppelinCollectors/
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