Blue & Gray: Mail and the Civil War
7th Annual Postal History Symposium & U.S. Classics 2012
November 2-4, 2012
American Philatelic Center, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
The 2012 Symposium was held in conjunction with a philatelic exhibition hosted by the United States Philatelic Classics Society (USPCS).
Postal History Society Talk | |
Postal History Symposium Session 1 How the Post Office in Elmira, NY met the challenges of the American Civil War – Alan Parsons Decorated Envelopes as Weapons of War – Ken Lawrence (abstract | presentation | paper) American Civil War Postage Due: North and South – Harry K. Charles, Jr. (abstract | presentation | paper) Balancing the Books: Newspapers & the Postal Business of the Confederacy – Diane DeBlois & Robert Dalton Harris (abstract | presentation | paper) |
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Postal History Symposium Session 2 The Madison, Florida Postmaster Provisionals: Anatomy of a Postal History Research Project – Patricia A. Kaufmann (abstract | presentation) “Cold Mountain”: Philatelic Props Developed for the Movie – Thomas J. Richards (abstract | presentation | paper) | |
Postal History Symposium Session 3 Confederate Generals’ Mail, 1861-1865 – Brian Green & Alexander Green (abstract | presentation) Economic Activity Following the Civil War Indexed by Postal Money Order Data – Terence Hines & Thomas Velk (abstract) Union and Confederate Soldiers’ Stationery: Their Designs and Purposes – Steven R. Boyd (abstract | paper) Where are the Confederate Route Agents? – Douglas N. Clark (abstract | presentation | paper) | |
Preserving an Organized Philately: Digitization of the Piper Philatelic Index – Scott Tiffney |
The Postal History Symposium is produced by the American Philatelic Research Library, the American Philatelic Society, and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.