Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 12-558
National Postal Museum
Website Records, 2011-2012
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of three websites and a blog maintained by the National Postal Museum.
The main National Postal Museum website, crawled November 14, 2011, includes information about the museum and its exhibits, collections, research, events, and educational resources. It also includes the online exhibitions Fire and Ice: Hindenberg and Titanic; Systems at Work; Mail Call; Art of the Stamp: Owney the Postal Dog; Collecting History; Fad to Fundamental: Air Mail in America; The Pichs Collection; Collecting Ancestral Homelands; Mail by Missile; Negro Leagues Baseball Stamp Collection; Delivering Hope: FDR and Stamps of the Great Depression; Alphabetilately; Victory Mail; Postal Inspectors: The Silent Service; Out of the Mails; Trailblazers and Trendsetters: Art of the Stamp; War Letters: Lost and Found; John Lennon: The Lost Album; Stamps Take Flight; Artistic License: The Duck Stamp Story; The Queen's Own: Stamps That Changed the World; The Kristen Ollies Collection; In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters, and Good Deed; Art of the Stamp; Posted Aboard the R. M. S. Titanic; Roberto Clemente Exhibit; As Precious as Gold; Mail to the Chief: The Stamp Designs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Binding the Nation; Customers and Communities; Moving the Mail; The Art of Cards and Letters; Philatelic Gallery; and A Nation Divided.
The mobile version of the main website was crawled on June 8, 2012.
"Arago: People, Postage, and the Post," crawled June 25, 2012, is a resource to the study of philately and postal operations as seen through the National Postal Museum's collections. Only top-level pages of this website were crawled.
The "Pushing the Envelope" blog, crawled May 14, 2012, is dedicated to sharing behind-the-scenes stories, thoughts, and interesting discussion about the museum and its collection.
Materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Fire and Ice: Hindenberg and Titanic (Online exhibition)
- Systems at Work (Online exhibition)
- Mail Call (Online exhibition)
- Art of the Stamp: Owney the Postal Dog (Online exhibition)
- Collecting History (Online exhibition)
- Fad to Fundamental: Air Mail in America (Online exhibition)
- The Pichs Collection (Online exhibition)
- Collecting Ancestral Homelands (Online exhibition)
- Mail by Missile (Online exhibition)
- Negro Leagues Baseball Stamp Collection (Online exhibition)
- Delivering Hope: FDR and Stamps of the Great Depression (Online exhibition)
- Alphabetilately (Online exhibition)
- Victory Mail (Online exhibition)
- Postal Inspectors: The Silent Service (Online exhibition)
- Out of the Mails (Online exhibition)
- Trailblazers and Trendsetters: Art of the Stamp (Online exhibition)
- War Letters: Lost and Found (Online exhibition)
- John Lennon: The Lost Album (Online exhibition)
- Stamps Take Flight (Online exhibition)
- Artistic License: The Duck Stamp Story (Online exhibition)
- The Queen's Own: Stamps That Changed the World (Online exhibition)
- The Kristen Ollies Collection (Online exhibition)
- In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters, and Good Deeds (Online exhibition)
- Art of the Stamp (Online exhibition)
- Posted Aboard the R. M. S. Titanic (Online exhibition)
- Roberto Clemente Exhibit (Online exhibition)
- As Precious as Gold (Online exhibition)
- Mail to the Chief: The Stamp Designs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Online exhibition)
- Binding the Nation (Online exhibition)
- Customers and Communities (Online exhibition)
- Moving the Mail (Online exhibition)
- The Art of Cards and Letters (Online exhibition)
- Philatelic Gallery (Online exhibition)
- A Nation Divided (Online exhibition)
- Pushing the Envelope (Blog)
- Arago: People, Postage, and the Post (Website)
Subject
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Collection management
- Stamp collecting
- Postal museums
- Web sites
- Museums -- Public relations
- Blogs
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 12-558, National Postal Museum, Website Records