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Thailand postal card about baseball practice
Object Details
- Description
- Military and diplomatic mail services maintain ties between overseas personnel and their home communities. Particularly during the four years of American involvement in World War II, each mail call during baseball season brought longed-for news of how the home team was faring. Servicemen also wrote long letters home describing games played in deserts, on aircraft carriers, and other exotic locales.
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- December 17, 1896
- Object number
- 2015.2009.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 3 × 4 7/8 in. (7.62 × 12.38 cm)
- Place
- Bangkok (British treaty right)
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- Sports
- International Stamps & Mail
- Record ID
- npm_2015.2009.1
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