DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Case): Recent Acquisitions:
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RECENT_171020_001.JPG: Recent Acquisitions
Objects on display draw people to museums. We actively collect objects that help tell stories about the postal service, the mail, and philately. Our curators seek out objects that have significant histories; are rare or unique; or that reflect trends and customs. We invite you to peek behind the scenes to see how some of our recent acquisitions came to our museum.
RECENT_171020_009.JPG: Mrs. ZIP placard
RECENT_171020_015.JPG: Mr. ZIP decal
RECENT_171020_023.JPG: Stamp boxes
RECENT_171020_034.JPG: Respirator equipment
RECENT_171020_042.JPG: Burned telephone
RECENT_171020_056.JPG: Postal contractor's hat
RECENT_171020_067.JPG: Airmail pilot's goggles and case
RECENT_171020_073.JPG: Flat mail tray
RECENT_171020_085.JPG: Letter carrier's uniforms
RECENT_171020_088.JPG: Only known photograph of the five little ZIPs, whose "11776" represents the ZIP code for neighborhood on Long Island, New York.
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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