Opening of Post Office in NMHT
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintPostmaster General Winton M. Blount established letter mail service at the Smithsonian on September 27, 1971 by hand canceling a letter for Secretary S. Dillon Ripley at the opening of the reconstructed General Store/Post Office from Headsville, West Virginia in the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History.
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Featured in TORCH, Fall 1971. See also Neg. # 71-1115-7 for same event.
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder Fall 1971
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
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94-1522
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