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“A Treasure Inside” Padlocked Postcard

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“SURTAXED” Covers Sent Overseas—Part II

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A Civil War Military Exemption for Dropsy

By Jesse I. Spector, M.D.

The Jonesboro, T. Postmaster’s Provisional—As Interesting on the Back as It is on the Front

By Patricia A. Kaufmann

A Letter Confirming Facts from a General’s Memoir

By Joseph Williams Cagnina

“Kill the Rattlesnake” — Exuberant California Unionism and the Pony Express

By Kurt A. Sanftleben

Military Training Camp Postcards Tell the Story—Maybe

By Steve Swain

The Only Town Named Primghar

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Vol. 54, No. 3

Whole Number 295 
Third Quarter 2023

World War One Archive from an
American Doughboy in France

Vol. 54, No. 2

Whole Number 294 
Second Quarter 2023

Domestic Cancellations
New York City, 1862-1869

Vol. 54, No. 1

Whole Number 293 
First Quarter 2023

U.S. Fancy Cancellations with
Faces and Figures

Vol. 53, No. 4

Whole Number 292 
Fourth Quarter 2022

Use of New Rate Sources on Unusual Items From 1872-1989

Vol. 53, No. 3

Whole Number 291 
Third Quarter 2022

The Streetcars and Post Offices
of Portland, Oregon

Vol. 53, No. 2

Whole Number 290 
Second Quarter 2022

Fancy Town Postmarks
on Stampless Covers Operations

Vol. 53, No. 1

Whole Number 289 
First Quarter 2022

Innovations in U.S. Domestic
Dead Letter Office Operations

Vol. 52, No. 4

Whole Number 288 
Fourth Quarter 2021

Portland, Oregon Rural Stations,
1909-1947

Vol. 52, No. 3

Whole Number 287 
Third Quarter 2021

Postal History of the Seven Lost U.S. National Parks

Vol. 52, No. 2

Whole Number 286 
Second Quarter 2021

Grimshawes, and its Claim as the Smallest Post Office

Vol. 52, No. 1

Whole Number 285
First Quarter 2021

Romeo and Juliet
Valentines of the Civil War

Vol. 51, No. 4

Whole Number 284
Fourth Quarter 2020

Augusta, Georgia
Express Mail Covers

Vol. 51, No. 3

Whole Number 283 
Third Quarter 2020

U.S. Navy Postmarks
Panama California Exposition

Vol. 51, No. 2

Whole Number 282
Second Quarter 2020

Postal Markings
on Registered Covers

Vol. 51, No. 1

Whole Number 281   
First Quarter 2020

Comic Valentines
Depicting Civil War Subjects

Vol. 50, No. 4

Whole Number 280   
Fourth Quarter 2019

Kickapoo Joy Juice
and Stanley’s Snake Oil

Vol. 50, No. 3

Whole Number 279   
Third Quarter 2019

Collecting
with a $5 Bill

Vol. 50, No. 2

Whole Number 278   
Second Quarter 2019

Postage Due on Incoming International Covers

Vol. 50, No. 1

Whole Number 277   
First Quarter 2019

A Case Study of the Demise of the West Portland Post Office

Vol. 49, No. 4

Whole Number 276   
Fourth Quarter 2018

The Marketing of the Pan American Exposition Stamps

Vol. 49, No. 3

Whole Number 275 
Third Quarter 2018

Portfolio and Package Envelopes
of the American Civil War

Vol. 49, No. 2

Whole Number 274
Second Quarter 2018

Japanese Americans in
World War II

Vol. 49, No. 1

Whole Number 273
First Quarter 2018

Postage Due on Incoming International Covers

Vol. 48, No. 4

Whole Number 272
Fourth Quarter 2017

Swift & Company and the North Portland Post Office

Vol. 48, No. 3

Whole Number 271
Third Quarter 2017

Stanley Gibbons, New York and Their Educator Packets

Vol. 48, No. 2

Whole Number 270
Second Quarter 2017

The Story of the
Brand Hoard

Vol. 48, No. 1

Whole Number 269
First Quarter 2017

The Virginia
Philatelist

Vol. 47, No. 4

Whole Number 268
Fourth Quarter 2016

East Portland, Oregon
A Postal Heart Still Beats

Vol. 47, No. 3

Whole Number 267
Third Quarter 2016

The U.S. Postal Service’s
‘90-Day Wonder’ Rates

Vol. 47, No. 2

Whole Number 266
Second Quarter 2016

Missed Connections? The 1938 Air Mail Week in San Diego

Vol. 47, No. 1

Whole Number 265
First Quarter 2016

The Postmarks of
Sandy Spring, Maryland

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