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    The New York Postmaster's Provisional is, as its designation implies, a postage stamp provided by the New York Post Office to facilitate the prepayment...
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    Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional St. Louis Bears New York Postmaster's Provisional When the Alexandria Provisionals were first issued, the...
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    The Alexandria "Blue Boy" is a rare Postmasters' Provisionals stamp produced in Alexandria, Virginia (then part of the District of Columbia) in 1847....
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    office issued its first stamps, postmasters' provisionals were introduced in eleven American cities, including New York, Providence, Rhode Island and St...
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    these in bulk. Such provisionals included both prepaid envelopes and stamps, mostly of crude design, the New York Postmaster's Provisional being the only one...
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    signer of Roll of Distinguished Philatelists and plater of the New York Postmaster's Provisional George Higlett Heinrich Himmler Arthur Hind Hiroyuki Kanai...
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    Service Announces New Prices for 2021". Archived from the original on 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2021-02-20. "U.S. Postal Service Announces New Prices for 2021"...
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  • Provisional stamps Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional United States postmasters provisional stamps New York Postmaster's Provisional St. Louis...
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  • Provisional stamps Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional United States postmasters provisional stamps New York Postmaster's Provisional St. Louis...
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  • Raising the Flag at Ground Zero (category New York City Fire Department)
    The Record newspaper of Bergen County, New Jersey, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture shows three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag...
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    St. Louis Bears Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional – Unique, entire New York Postmaster's Provisional 1c Z grill – Rarest US stamp Black Bull...
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  • Jermain Loguen (2024) Underground Railroad operative based in Syracuse New York Vince Lombardi (1997) Football coach Jack London (1986) Author Crawford...
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    service on May 15, 1918, flying between Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. The Post Office set a controversial rate of 24 cents for the service...
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    cent value. The most valuable of all Missionary items is a cover sent to New York City bearing the only known use of the 2-cent value on cover, as well as...
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    Exposition (as it had for the Columbian Exposition), and 10 days later Postmaster General James A. Gary agreed, promising a series with five denominations...
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  • their first stamps: Double Geneva. 1845 - Creation of the New York Postmaster's Provisional 1845 - The US star routes begin operation. 1847 1 July The...
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  • Service to design and fabricate the menorah. After the reveal ceremony in New York City on October 9, the stamp was made available nationwide at all post...
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    handling long lines of cash customers, and developed a variety of Postmaster's provisionals. These took a variety of forms, from envelopes prestamped with...
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    total control by the Post Office Department. In short, it allowed the Postmaster General to contract private companies to carry mail. The Act was sponsored...
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    green - Albert Gallatin, fourth Secretary of the Treasury, founder of New York University, scientist, diplomat, member of the Senate and of the House...
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    expense for any new stamps required by the Post Office, the 1889 contract specified that the Post Office would pay those costs. Indeed, Postmaster John Wanamaker...
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    State Editions. New York: H. Lauter Levin Associates / Macmillan, 1988 ISBN 0883636883 292p. Smith, Martin J. The Wild Duck Chase. New York: Walker & Company...
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    security printers merged to form the American Bank Note Company. The new company made New York City its headquarters. Less than two years later, the remaining...
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    introduced in 1842 by the City Despatch Post in New York City. In 1845, the New York Postmaster issued a provisional stamp for local use which offered a far more...
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    1-cent 1868 Z-Grills, both with cancellation marks. One is owned by the New York Public Library as part of the Benjamin Miller Collection. This leaves only...
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    St. Louis Bears (category Provisional stamps of the United States)
    of them—the New York Postmaster's Provisional—engraved with considerable skill by a firm specializing in bank notes. The use of provisionals ceased in the...
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  • Retrieved May 14, 2013. Hawaiian Rain Forest is final stamp in nature series New Jersey.com 19 August 2010 Nature to play major role in 199 postage Kingman...
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    the 3-cent Lincoln regular issue then currently available. Moreover, the new rate meant that the only Washington stamp available to the public for everyday...
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  • May 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2017. "2011 USPS New Issues Calendar". Stamp News Now. Archived from the original on 27 January...
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  • 2015, during a ceremony in Graceland, attended by Priscilla Presley and Postmaster General Megan Brennan. The release of the stamp was accompanied by a hit...
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