BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Gross Gallery 3): Mail Marks History

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1. MMARKS_180526_001.JPG: Mail Marks History In Times of Trouble
2. MMARKS_180526_006.JPG: Undeliverable 9/11 cover, September 11, 2001
3. MMARKS_180526_010.JPG: Undeliverable 9/11 cover, September 11, 2001
4. MMARKS_180526_013.JPG: In Times of Trouble Cholera Epidemics
5. MMARKS_180526_019.JPG: Cholera fumigated mail, December 1, 1774
6. MMARKS_180526_023.JPG: Cholera fumigated mail, 1831
7. MMARKS_180526_025.JPG: Cholera fumigated mail, November 19, 1848
8. MMARKS_180526_029.JPG: In Times of Trouble Anthrax
9. MMARKS_180526_035.JPG: Cover inspected for anthrax addressed to Vice President Richard B. Cheney, July 18, 2002
10. MMARKS_180526_038.JPG: Cover inspected for anthrax addressed to the Office of the Vice President, October 18, 2001
11. MMARKS_180526_041.JPG: Cover inspected for anthrax addressed to Vice President Richard B. Cheney, October 22, 2001
12. MMARKS_180526_049.JPG: In Times of Trouble Siberian Expeditionary Force
13. MMARKS_180526_052.JPG: Siberia postal agency, October 18, 1918
14. MMARKS_180526_055.JPG: Siberia postal agency, November 1, 1918
15. MMARKS_180526_060.JPG: North Russia Siberia Expedition, June 17, 1919
16. MMARKS_180526_064.JPG: Members of the American Expeditionary Force Siberia arrive in 1918. Providing mail service to U.S. forces in such distant places posed a difficult challenge.
17. MMARKS_180526_068.JPG: In Times of Trouble Civilian Internment
18. MMARKS_180526_071.JPG: Inmates at Auschwitz, the largest and most notorious of six concentration camps set up by Nazi Germany, passed through this gate. Arbeit Macht Frei means "Work Makes One Free."
19. MMARKS_180526_074.JPG: Auschwitz concentration camp, May 13, 1942
20. MMARKS_180526_077.JPG: Japanese-American internment mail, April 12, 1943
21. MMARKS_180526_079.JPG: American WWII internee, August 23, 1943
22. MMARKS_180526_082.JPG: In Times of Trouble Civilian Mail Censorship
23. MMARKS_180526_084.JPG: WWII suspension of service, February 10, 1942
24. MMARKS_180526_087.JPG: United States Army censors perform their duties during World War II
25. MMARKS_180526_089.JPG: WWII civil mail censorship, August 17, 1943
26. MMARKS_180526_091.JPG: WWII censor check for secret ink, July 25, 1944
27. MMARKS_180526_096.JPG: In Times of Trouble Earthquake
28. MMARKS_180526_100.JPG: San Francisco earthquake, April 24, 1906
29. MMARKS_180526_102.JPG: Postal employees saved the main post office building and its contents. With fires under control, business resumed with general delivery service at 9 a.m. on April 20, two days after the earthquake. Stamp sales resumed first days later.
30. MMARKS_180526_104.JPG: One of the greatest natural disasters in U.S. history, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake toppled buildings and opened gaping cracks in the street.
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Description of Subject Matter: Mail Marks History
September 22, 2013 – Permanent
The markings on mail provide valuable clues to the surprising ways mail has been transported over time, revealing challenges and even disasters encountered along the way. Learn to analyze and decipher these marking by tracing the journeys of three historic letters and investigate markings on mail transported on land, across seas, by air, and in space. Among the many historic artifacts on view are a 1390 Silk Road letter; a letter mailed aboard the Titanic during its first and only voyage; Amelia Earhart’s brown leather flight suit; a mailbox remnant from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; and a mailbox from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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2018 photos: Overnight trips this year: (February) Greenville, NC for a Civil War Trust conference,, (May/June) Newport News, VA for another CWT conference, (July) my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles), (August twice, October) three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and (September) Chicago, IL for my CWT swansong event. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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