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Object Details
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- Featured in Torch, August 1992
- Summary
- Van Ramey, son of National Museum of American History secretary Joyce Ramey, hops across an art construction featuring postage stamps designed to advertise the new postal museum. On November 6, 1990, Secretary Adams and Anthony Frank, then postmaster general of the United States Postal Service signed an agreement to relocate the National Philatelic Collection, at the National Museum of American History, to a new museum in space allocated by the U.S. Postal Service at the historic City Post Office Building, Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, N.E.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: August 1992
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- 1992
- Standard number
- 92-7382-20A or 92-7382.20a
- Author
- Tinsley, Jeffrey Wayne 1947-2017
- Subject
- National Postal Museum (U.S.)
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Postal History
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Topic
- Stamp collecting
- Ramey, Van
- Museum visitors
- Postage stamps
- Advertising
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10162
