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The United States Postal Service (USPS) issued a 32- cent Hanukkah stamp in 1996 with a menorah design as a joint issue with Israel Post. [1] A menorah design was also used in 2008 for a forever stamp issued jointly with USPS. [2][3] In 2012, a stamp sheet commemorating Hanukkah was issued jointly with India Post. [4]
El Presidio Real de San Diego (Royal Presidio of San Diego) is a historic fort in San Diego, California. It was established on May 14, 1769, by Gaspar de Portolá, leader of the first European land exploration of Alta California —at that time an unexplored northwestern frontier area of New Spain. The presidio was the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific coast of the present-day ...
Nature of America is a series of twelve self-adhesive stamp sheets that the United States Postal Service released annually between 1999 and 2010 starting with the Sonoran Desert sheet [3][5] and ending with the Hawaiian Rain Forest Sheet. [6][7] Like the Celebrate the Century stamp series, these were printed on large sheets 9"x8¾" (233mm x 171mm), [5] but differed from the former in that they ...
List of United States post office muralsMusic of the Plains (mural study, , Texas, Post Office, 1939) by Xavier Gonzalez. This New Deal artwork features a cowboy of Mexican heritage serenading a woman, symbolizing the deep Hispanic cultural roots in Kilgore's identity. The original study is housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. From 1934 to 1943, the Procurement Division of the United ...
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is a state protected historical park in the Old Town neighborhood of San Diego, California. The park commemorates the early days of San Diego; it includes many historic buildings from the period 1820 to 1870. The park was established in 1968. [4] In 2005 and 2006, California State Parks listed Old Town San Diego as the most visited state park in ...
The Postal Savings System was established as a result of lobbying by farmers and workers with grievances against the private banking system due to numerous bank closures and inadequate credit opportunities. [3] After the Panic of 1907, the Republican Party supported a postal banking system, while Democrats preferred deposit insurance. After Republican William Howard Taft won the 1908 United ...
Postage stamps and postal history of San MarinoA 1877 San Marino stamp The postal history of San Marino can be traced to October 7, 1607, with the introduction of public postal services. [1] The republic's postal needs were handled by a post office in nearby Rimini, Italy; the first San Marino post office opened in 1833. [1]
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.