Collections Inventory

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Columbian Exposition Souvenir Postal Card (Woman’s Building), 1893 (Accession No. 2000.2007.11)

Collections:

U.S. Postage Stamps Issued for World’s Fairs and Expositions:

Year – Fair, City – Scott Stamp Catalogue number

1893 – Columbian Exposition, Chicago – 230-245
1898 – Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha – 285-293 1901 – Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo – 294-299
1904 – Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis – 323-327 1907 – Jamestown Exposition, Hampton Roads – 328-330 1909 – Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition – 370-371
1909 – Hudson-Fulton Celebration, - 372-373
1913 – Panama-Pacific Exposition – 397-400, 400A 1914-15 – Panama-Pacific Exposition – 401-404
1926 – Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia – 627, Canal Zone 96 1933 – A Century of Progress, Chicago – 728, 730
1933 – A Century of Progress, Chicago – 729, 731 1933 – A Century of Progress, Chicago – C18
1935 – California Pacific Exposition, San Diego – 773 1936 – California Pacific Exposition, San Diego – 778
1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco - 852 1939 – New York World’s Fair, New York City – 853
1962 – Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle - 1196
1964 – New York World’s Fair, New York City – 1244 1974 – Expo ’74 World’s Fair, Spokane – 1527
1982 – Knoxville World’s Fair, Knoxville – 2006-2009 1984 – Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans – 2086

Anniversary issues:
1992 – Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) – 2624-2629 reissue 1998 – Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904), St. Louis – 3182e
1998 – Trans-Mississippi Exposition (1898), Omaha – 3209a-I, 3210 reissue

World’s Fair Proofs:

National Philatelic Collection by Scott Stamp Catalogue number Certified Plate Proof Collection by production plate number Panama Pacific Die Proof Album (Accession No. 0.58223)
Post Office Department Philatelic Display Panels
Roosevelt Presentation Albums (Accession No. 52985.339 and 1994.2090) Ernest R. Ackerman Collection
Clarence H. Eagle Collection
Postmaster General Collection, USPS (on loan - image reproduction restrictions)
The Benjamin K. Miller Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (on loan - image reproduction restrictions)

World’s Fair Postal Stationery:

Year – Fair, City – Scott catalogue number

1876 – Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia – U218-21 1893 – Columbian Exposition, Chicago – U348-51
1893 – Columbian Exposition, Chicago – UX10 set of postal cards with printed images of fair buildings (Accession No. 2000.2007)
1926 – Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia – U522 1964 – New York World’s Fair, New York City – U546

National Philatelic Collection by Scott Stamp Catalogue number Arthur E. Michel Collection

World’s Fair Mail and Postal History:

National Philatelic Collection Covers
by Scott Stamp Catalogue number Expositions and Fairs collection
Hand-illuminated cover autographed by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, New York World’s Fair, 1939 (Accession No. 209801.1)
James A. Farley Collection
Presentation sheet, New York World’s Fair, 1939 (Accession No. 209045.80)

World’s Fair Artifacts:

Columbian Exposition Owney Tag (rail mail mascot), 1893 (Accession no. 0.052985.210)
Washington City Old Post Office architectural model, Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1914-15 (Accession no. 241441.1)

Archives:

Third Assistant Postmaster General Stamp Design files by Scott number