Delivering Hope: FDR and Stamps of the Great Depression

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EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS

Franklin D. Roosevelt with stamp collection

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum, Hyde Park, New York
“I owe my life to my hobbies—especially stamp collecting.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt


				FDR’s stamp tools, including magnifier, perforation gauge, watermark detector, and box for albums on loan from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York

				Fifteen of the twenty uncut and ungummed press sheets of postage stamps purchased by PMG James A. Farley and autographed to give as political favors, which led to a scandal and the special printing known as “Farley’s Follies”

				Six original sketches by FDR for stamp designs, shown on a rotating basis due to the paper’s fragility

				An envelope postmarked “Honolulu, December 7, 1941” at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor