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Category: Tourists and Tourism, 1970s, Postal Services
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 19, 2023 -
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Category: Games, 1960s, Postal Services
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 15, 2023 -
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Category: Family, Humor, Music, 1900s, Postal Services, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 27, 2023 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Postal Services
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 24, 2021 -
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Category: Inventions, Technology, 1930s, 1940s, Postal Services
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 22, 2021 -
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Category: Husbands, Wives, 1960s, Sex, Postal Services
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 17, 2021 -
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Category: Cats, Dogs, Postal Services, Stamps
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 30, 2021 -
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Category: Cats, Nineteenth Century, Postal Services
Mail clerks raised money for preserving their mascot and he was taken to the Post Office Department's headquarters in Washington, DC, where he was on placed on display for the public. In 1904 the Department added Owney to their display at the St. Louis, Missouri, World’s Fair. In 1911, the department transferred Owney to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1926, the Institution allowed Owney to travel to the Post Office Department’s exhibit at the Sesquicentennial exhibit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 1964-1992, he was displayed at the Smithsonian museum now known as the National Museum of American History and in 1993 he moved to the new National Postal Museum, where he remains on display next to a fabricated Railway Post Office train car.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 28, 2021 -
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Category: Travel, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, Dogs, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Postal Services
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 17, 2020 -
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Category: 1990s, Postal Services, Stamps
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