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  • Essay

    Date
    1862
  • Confederate folded letter

    Date
    1864
  • $1.50 Washington Inland Exchange proof horizontal pair

    Date
    1862-1871
  • Trial Color Proof

    Date
    1862
  • 4c Hostetter and Smith revenue stamp single

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    1863
  • Album page of Peru postage stamps on covers

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    1862
  • Proof

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    1862
  • Railway Post Office cover

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    1864
  • Album page with Peru postage stamps on covers

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    1868
  • Union Patriotic Cover

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    1861-1865
  • Essay

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    1862
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    1862
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    1864
  • Trial Color Proof

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    1864
  • Essay

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    1868
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    1862
  • 1c Franklin

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    1861
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    1864
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    1862
  • Plate Proof

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    1864
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    1864
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    1862
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    1862
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  • Date:"1860s"
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    • Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877) 1240
    • National Stamp Collection 239
    • Covers & Letters 225
    • U.S. Stamps 207
    • Alexander McBride Collection of U.S. Patriotic Covers 127
    • U.S. Classics 99
    • U.S. Related Areas 56
    • American Expansion (1800-1860) 46
    • International Stamps & Mail 45
    • Harry L. Jefferys Collection 41
    • Ernest K. Ackerman Collection of U.S. Proofs 27
    • Floyd S. Leach Collection 16
    • Civil War patriotic covers 5
    • Mail Processing 5
    • Military & Policing Forces 5
    • Postal Administration 5
    • Technology & Inventions 5
    • Transportation 5
    • Postal Stationery 4
    • The Gilded Age (1877-1920) 3
    • Animals 2
    • Customers & Commerce 2
    • Colonial Era (1607-1776) 1
    • International Postal Operations 1
    • Philatelic Hobby 1
  • Type
    • Tax stamps 2599
    • Correspondence 759
    • Covers & letters 759
    • Postage stamps 517
    • Archival materials 38
    • Mail Processing Equipment 12
    • Postal money orders 10
    • Postal stationery 7
    • Printing and printmaking equipment 6
    • Photographs 5
    • Employee Gear 4
    • Transportation Equipment & Models 4
    • Artifacts 3
    • Exhibit Collection 1
    • Loan 1
    • Maps 1
  • Date
    • 1830s 6
    • 1840s 2
    • 1850s 155
    • 1870s 199
    • 1880s 5
    • 1890s 4
    • 1900s 6
    • 1910s 2
    • 1920s 18
    • 1930s 1
    • 1960s 1
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    • United States of America 3448
    • Confederate States of America 94
    • Peru 45
    • Virginia 44
    • Russia 32
    • Hawaiian Islands 27
    • Louisiana 24
    • EL SALVADOR 22
    • South Carolina 20
    • New York 14
    • Indiana 12
    • New Orleans 12
    • Colombia 10
    • FRANCE 8
    • Ohio 7
    • District of Columbia 6
    • Massachusetts 6
    • RUSSIA 6
    • Illinois 5
    • Novgorod 5
    • Boston 4
    • Delaware 4
    • GREAT BRITAIN 4
    • Georgia 4
    • Michigan 4
  • Media Usage
    • CC0 956
    • Not determined 256
    • Usage conditions apply 151
  • On View
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