Symposium Session 1: Postal Employees and Communication Networks

• "Civilian and Military Organization of Mail Operations for the American Expeditionary Forces" - Lynn Heidelbaugh
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• "The First World War, Female Telegraphists and the General Post Office’s Employment Priorities" - Joanna Espin
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• "U.S. Army Signal Corps Telephone & Telegraph in the Great War" - Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris
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• "World War I Impacts on Chile's Security Printing Plant Development" - Bill Lenarz
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Exhibit Presentations

• “War Savings and Thrift Stamps-Helping Fund the Great War” - Harry Charles
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• “Red Cross Activities Before, During and After WWI (1912-1923)” - Jack Elder
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• “Prisoner of War Camps in Japan, 1914-1920. Opportunities for Exploration, Research and Study” - Harold Krische
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• “The Conquest, Occupation and Partition of German East Africa, 1914-1920 Ravi Vora,
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• “The Versailles Peace Treaty: The Role of Diplomatic and Military Mail” - Regis Hoffman
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Symposium Session 2: Censorship and Surveillance

• "Zanzibar Mails – WWI" - Gary DuBro
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• "Civilian Postal Censorship in India During the World War I Era" - Robert Gray
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• "Postal Censorship of the Press during World War I" - Nancy Pope
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• "The Revolution Will Not be Mailed: The US Post Office’s Role in Antiradicalism During and After World War I" - Adam Quinn
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Symposium Session 3: The Mail

• "The Mail of Prisoners of the Great War: Picture Postcards and Aid-Related Cards" - Alexander Kolchinsky
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• "Returning to a Country They No Longer Recognized" - Kevin Lowther
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• "Write that Letter Home: Senders, Recipients, and the Content of World War I Correspondence” - Jim Miller
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Symposium Keynote

• James Peter Gough RDP FRPSL

Symposium Session 1

• A Non-Treaty Postal Agreement of the United States Post Office Department with the British Post Office as a significant early step towards the development of United States airmail to foreign destinations - Murray Abramson
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• Newspapers in the Mails: Postal Unification of the British American Colonies - Diane DeBlois & Robert Dalton Harris
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• 1836 Anglo-French Postal Convention (AF1836) - Geoffrey Lewis
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Symposium Session 2

• Lines of Connectivity - John Scott
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• Behind the Bull’s Eye: Brazilian Postal Reforms in the first half of the Nineteenth Century (1829–1844) - Pérola Castro
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• Bermuda as the Crossroads of the Atlantic 1615–1877 - Art Groten
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Symposium Keynote

• “A Pan Am Flight Cover Literally Changed My Life” by Jon E. Krupnick
  (YouTube Video)

Symposium Session 1

• German Trans-Atlantic Airmail Services 1929–1939 - James W. Graue
  (read abstract | presentation | YouTube Video)
• Aeropostale and Air France: A Decade of South-Atlantic Airmail - Daniel V. Gribbin
  (read abstract | presentation | paper | YouTube Video)
• L.A.T.I., Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane: The Italian Air Service to South America, December 1939–December 1941 - Samuel J. Pezzillo
  (read abstract | presentation | paper | YouTube Video)

Symposium Session 2

• The Bathurst Connection: The Centrality of Gambia to the Development of Transatlantic Air Mail- Gary Wayne Loew
  (read abstract | presentation | paper | YouTube Video
  This paper was published in Cameo, vol. 16, no. 3 (October 2015) and is re-posted here with permission.)
• Development of Transpacific Airmail Routes by the Naval Air Transport Service - William Fort
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Symposium Session 3

• "The Veil has been Lifted" Fisherman’s Lake, PAA Builds a Seaport in the Jungle - David E. Crotty
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• Development of WWII Transpacific Airmail Service by the U.S. Army - William Fort
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• The Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the South East European Air Mail Connection to North America (1939–1941) - Ratomir Zivkovic
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Postal History Society Talk

• The Fort Sumter Issue of 1961: A Commemorative in Conflict – David M. Frye
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Postal History Symposium Session 1

• How the Post Office in Elmira, NY met the challenges of the American Civil War – Alan Parsons
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• Decorated Envelopes as Weapons of War – Ken Lawrence
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• American Civil War Postage Due: North and South – Harry K. Charles, Jr.
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• Balancing the Books: Newspapers & the Postal Business of the Confederacy – Diane DeBlois & Robert Dalton Harris
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Postal History Symposium Session 2

• The Madison, Florida Postmaster Provisionals: Anatomy of a Postal History Research Project – Patricia A. Kaufmann
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• “Cold Mountain”: Philatelic Props Developed for the Movie – Thomas J. Richards
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Postal History Symposium Session 3

• Confederate Generals’ Mail, 1861-1865 – Brian Green & Alexander Green
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• Economic Activity Following the Civil War Indexed by Postal Money Order Data – Terence Hines & Thomas Velk
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• Union and Confederate Soldiers’ Stationery: Their Designs and Purposes – Steven R. Boyd
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• Where are the Confederate Route Agents? – Douglas N. Clark
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