I recently purchased an interesting piece of postal history from Carson City, Nevada, a registered mail book 1912 - 1913, Form #1547. It's 3/4 full of signatures from early Carson City Locals
anyone else have any interesting non-stamp pieces of Postal History?
Sadly the book is not in good shape. The front cover is missing and the first page is torn but most of the rest of the pages are in pretty good condition.
I have spent HOURS researching the signers some of which were US Mint officials including Annie Martin who was the first woman to head a Federal Reserve facility.
JP Donnelley also signed the register, He was commander of the posse involved in the Battle of Kelley Creek, one of the last battles in the “Indian Wars†and Superintendent of the Nevada State Police.
some of the other signers include:
Sam Platt - Early Carson City Attorney & Politician
Sam Davis - Writer, Newspaperman, and old west character (close friend of Wyatt Earp)
Congressman H. F. Bartine
Mildred Bray - (An elementary school in Carson City is named for her)
Judge E. S. Farrington
etc
That is a wonderful piece of American history. Of course Carson City was the location of a US Mint for a number of years during the Nevada gold and silver mining heyday in the second half of the 19th century.
... and yes Annie Martin worked at the mint as her first job as a teenager. She went on to teach school then run a newspaper. In 1908 she went back to work for the then "US Assay Office (US Mint)" at Carson City and by 1913 was Chief Clerk. In 1821 President Warren G. Harding appointed her Superintendent of the facility. a side note... she usually signed "A. H. Martin" VERY seldom signing "Annie H. Martin" she has signed both ways in the register. It was a huge surprise when I was researching the signature.... to find out that A. H. Martin was Annie...
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re: Interesting Postal History Items
If you look at the space just above the "R" in QUAR.DOLL. you will see the Carson City mint Mark.
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Carl Reichenbach worked as an R.P.O. clerk for many years. He was the father of my grandmother's sister-in-law, Virginia Reichenbach Heiss. In the mid-1920s, he was on the route between Indianapolis and Cincinnati. I believe he later worked on routes between Indianapolis and South Bend, Indiana and between Indianapolis and Cleveland. I'll try to post more of his items later.
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Here are two more pages from the Reichenbach train schedule.
How time flies. I scanned these pages 9 years ago, thinking I'd write a short article for the Indiana Postal History Society Newsletter. Someday, maybe..........
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I found these show souvenirs from the Philadelphia National Stamp Exhibition, 1995. The show theme was Comic Strip Classics. I have two souvenirs autographed by Tony Auth. Tony Auth was a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" for over fourty years. It is a four page souvenir. I show the front and both inside pages. There are two different autographs.
I promised I'd be back — over three years ago! Here are those additional pages from the Carl Reichenbach materials I inherited from my great aunt, Virginia (Reichenbach) Heiss. The first three are trip reports and the fourth is a page from the registered mail log.
The following image includes notes about "Mt St Joe" and "Failed to find sta by that name" The last image in this group includes a registered mail item from Dayton that appears to have been delivered to Mt St Joe Ohio. Was it actually delivered?
I don't know what the "Rebound" comment means.
A close-up of part of the above entry.
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