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  • 2c Washington plate proof

    Date
    July 17, 1895
  • 4c Abraham Lincoln plate proof

    Date
    May 26, 1897
  • Portland, Maine Owney tag

    Date
    April 14, 1896
  • 18c Mataio Kekuanaoa overprint single

    Date
    1893
  • 1c Postage Due single

    Date
    1895
  • 3c Jackson single

    Date
    1890
  • 2c Washington plate proof

    Date
    January 16, 1897
  • Photograph of mail streetcar in Boston, Massachusetts

    Date
    c. 1900
  • 2c Statue of Freedom plate proof

    Date
    September 5, 1896
  • 20kr Franz Josef single

    Date
    1891
  • Card to Smithsonian to buy coins from Mission

    Date
    November 26, 1896
  • 12c S.S. Arawa order for stamps

    Date
    August 16, 1894
  • 3c Washington State Department card plate proof

    Date
    1893
  • 2c Honolulu Harbor specimen sheet pane of 100

    Date
    1899
  • 5c King Kamehameha V overprint single

    Date
    1893
  • 50kr Franz Josef single

    Date
    1891
  • International Postal Card

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    Issue date: 1897
  • Columbia stamp album page

    Date
    1890-1893
  • Rural Letter Carrier's cash and stamp box

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    c. 1902-1930
  • Hotel Snoqualmie Owney tag

    Date
    1888-1897
  • Seattle, Washington Owney tag

    Date
    1888-1897
  • $3 Columbus Describing His Third Voyage single

    Date
    1893
  • 2c Washington plate proof

    Date
    February 25, 1895
  • 1c Franklin plate proof

    Date
    July 23, 1894

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  • Date:"1890s"
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    • U.S. Stamps 601
    • National Stamp Collection 531
    • The Gilded Age (1877-1920) 489
    • Popular Culture 261
    • International Stamps & Mail 109
    • Postal Employees 48
    • Military & Policing Forces 38
    • Contemporary (1990-present) 22
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    • Covers & Letters 15
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    • Customers & Commerce 12
    • Transportation 12
    • Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877) 10
    • Floyd S. Leach Collection 10
    • American Expansion (1800-1860) 7
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  • Type
    • Postage stamps 927
    • Certified plate proofs 889
    • Identifying artifacts 376
    • Tax stamps 151
    • Archival materials 86
    • Correspondence 80
    • Covers & letters 80
    • Postal stationery 75
    • Mail Processing Equipment 50
    • Employee Gear 47
    • Photographs 36
    • Labor Unions & Associations Material 24
    • Transportation Equipment & Models 15
    • Artifacts 12
    • Works of art 4
    • Maps 3
    • Postal money orders 3
    • Printing and printmaking equipment 1
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    • 1800s 13
    • 1830s 1
    • 1840s 1
    • 1850s 10
    • 1860s 4
    • 1870s 6
    • 1880s 346
    • 1900s 95
    • 1910s 14
    • 1920s 10
    • 1930s 4
    • 1940s 5
    • 1950s 4
    • 1970s 21
    • 1980s 2
    • 1990s 10
    • 2020s 17
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    • United States of America 2153
    • Hawaiian Islands 79
    • Austria 47
    • Ohio 45
    • Russia 42
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