| | 3 | Author: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arizona Postcards Collection
1891-1990 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1891-1990 | | | | Abstract: | This is a collection of approximately 600 postcards relating to the State of Arizona. The postcards in the collection date from 1891 through the 1990s, but most of the items are from Arizona’s Territorial period through to the early 1920s. The collection includes real photo cards, greeting cards, and panoramic cards. The postcards in this collection are a visual demonstration of how Arizona has changed since the territorial period and many of the cards show buildings, people and ways of life which no longer exist. Messages on the reverse of these postcards comment on the experiences of inhabitants and visitors. Postmarks show post offices and in some cases towns which have disappeared, and demonstrate modes of postal delivery (such as railway post) which were key to the development of transportation throughout the western United States. | | | | Repository: | Postal History Foundation, Peggy J. Slusser Memorial Philatelic Library | | | | Subjects: | Postal service--United States--History. | Postcards--Arizona. | Tourism--Arizona--History. | Parks--Arizona. | Indians of North America--Arizona--Pictorial works. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 4 | Author: | Unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | New Mexico Territorial Covers Collection
[1874]-1912 ead | | | | Date(s): | [1874]-1912 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes covers, postcards and letters mailed from towns in New Mexico during the state’s territorial period. Items of interest include real photo postcards which show images of: the Alvarado in Albuquerque (postmarked Anapra 1908); the Catholic Church in Las Cruces (postmarked Acme 1909); the Overland Limited Train (postmarked Black Tower 1910); Deming, NM (postmarked Carne 1912); a cattle ranch near Portales (postmarked Carter, 1907); a birdseye view of Folsom (postmarked Cuates, 1911); the Institute for the Blind, Alamogordo (postmarked Carrizozo); the hospital at Dawson, 1909; Main Street, Tucumcari, (postmarked Dodson 1911); Mexican Revolution politician Federico Gonzalez Garza (postmarked Elephant Butte 1911); Main Street, Melrose (postmarked House 1910); Tucumcari High School (postmarked Hanley 1911); the wholesale district, El Paso, (postmarked Lanark 1908); unknown building in Lamy, 1906; Main Street Las Cruces, 1908; the Church at Isleta Pueblo (postmarked Leopold 1906); St. Anthony’s Sanitarium at Las Vegas, 1910 (Postmarked Levy and Porvenir 1910); Lodge at Cloudcroft, (postmarked Mountain Park); Bravo Ranch Quarters (postmarked Nara Visa 1908); Chaves Courthouse in Roswell (postmarked Orchard Park 1911) Pipeline from Mountains (postmarked Orogrande 1907); Alameda Park Depot and Office Bldg, Alamogordo (postmarked Oscuro 1908); President Porfirio Diaz in a parade at El Paso (postmarked Pearl 1909); Souvenir of Silver Springs, (postmarked Silver Springs 1911); View of Sylanite (postmarked Sylvanite 1909); Street Scene, Silver City (postmarked Tyrone, 1910).
A number of picture cachets are also in the collection, including: a cachet of St. Michaels College (postmarked Santa Fe 1889); a cachet with a map of Colorado and New Mexico (postmarked Lookout 1880); and a cachet for “A. Gusdorf Grain Mill (postmarked Ranches of Taos, 1888).
Letters in the collection include: a letter from a teacher describing Christmas celebrations and social events in 1907 in Alma; letters about the economy (lumber, farming, mining), horses and people and a postcard, from Copperton, 1905; a letter from a German speaking soldier at, Fort Stanton, 1886; a letter about Statehood Day and taxes (postmarked Lakewood, 1912); a letter about house construction in Madison; a letter saying “thanks for the tobacco” and about organizing a Breeder’s Association in Mesilla, 1906; a letter with details of raising and selling hogs, Ruidoso, 1911; a letter about bad condition of the church and school, Silver City, 1909; and a letter which is described as the writers “last correspondence from the New Mexico Territory”.
Other interesting items include: a cover from Gascom dated 1900, signed by the postmaster on the closing date of the post office; a handwritten postmark, dated 1878, Loma Parda; a handwritten postmark and letter from Turquesa 1881; a postmark from the KC and La Jolla RPO (postmarked Melrose, 1908); covers from 1874 and 1875, Santa Fe. | | | | Repository: | Postal History Foundation, Peggy J. Slusser Memorial Philatelic Library | | | | Subjects: | New Mexico -- History. | Postal Service -- New Mexico. | Postcards -- New Mexico. | Mining -- New Mexico -- History. | Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico -- History. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 5 | Author: | Postal History Foundation (Western Postal History Museum) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John and Lillian Theobald Postcards, Letters and Postmarks Collection
1889-1926 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1889-1926 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains Arizona Territorial and Arizona statehood correspondence collected by John and Lillian Theobald, respected scholars and collectors of Arizona postal history. The collection features Arizona Territorial, Arizona statehood, and R.P.O. postmarks, on a variety of covers, including postcards and envelopes. The collection also contains black and white photos, and a rare small-sized shipment box. | | | | Repository: | Postal History Foundation, Peggy J. Slusser Memorial Philatelic Library | | | | Subjects: | Theobald, John. | Theobald, Lillian. | Postcards--Arizona. | Postmarks--Arizona. | Postage stamps--French Polynesia--Tahiti. | Postmarks--French Polynesia--Tahiti. | Postal service--United States--Arizona--History. | Railway mail service--United States. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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