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First baseball stamp comes off press. Washington, D.C., May 26. Postmaster General James. A. Farley points to the first batch of the new baseball stamps as they come off the press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today. The stamp is being issued and will be first placed on sale at Cooperstown, N.Y., where it is said the first game was played. Alvin Hall, Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is shown with the Postmaster General

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First baseball stamp comes off press. Washington, D.C., May 26. Postmaster General James. A. Farley points to the first batch of the new baseball stamps as they come off the press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today. The stamp is being issued and will be first placed on sale at Cooperstown, N.Y., where it is said the first game was played. Alvin Hall, Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is shown with the Postmaster General

[Louis Drucke, New York, NL (baseball)]

President Hoover officially opens baseball season in National Capital. President Hoover tossing out the first ball to officially open the baseball season in Washington today. The Washington Senators played in the Philadelelphia Athletics in the season's opener. In the photograph, left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde; Mrs. Herbert Hoover; President Hoover; Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon (sitting) Secretary of War James W. Good; Walter Johnson; and Clark Griffith

Baseball's most devoted fan Dr. James Penniman, of Philadelphia, has two hobbies - to collect and give away libraries and to watch ball games ... By Harry Robert. Reprinted from the Baseball magazine of December, 1929 ... Norwich, Conn. Bulletin

First RU... Opening the first run of the Michigan centennial stamp of which there will be 65,000,000. The run will be started in Michigan on the first of November. The opening was attended by Postmaster General James A. Farley, Orville Atwood, Secretary of state of Michigan, and L.W. Roberts, assistant secretary of State. L.to R.: L.W. Roberts, Orville Atwood, P.M.G. Farley, 102435

Vice President cheers favorite at opening game. Washington, D.C., April 19. Business was at a standstill today in both houses of congress as republicans and democrats alike attended the opening game of the baseball season in Washington between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics. Pictured here are Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, Republican of Calif.; Vice President Garner; Senator Charles McNary, Republican of Oregon; and Senator Tom Connally, Democrat of Texas, 4/19/1937

Baseballs autographed by six Presidents. 'Big Train's' gift to Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, D.C., April 29. Walter Johnson's contribution to the National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, New York, will be these six baseballs autographed by six presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. With the exception of the ones autographed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, the balls are those which were thrown out at opening games pitched by Johnson during his regime as star pitcher for the Washington Senators. The ball autographed by President Hoover was presented to Johnson while he was manager of the Washington team while the one with the signature of Theodore Roosevelt was a special gift to the Big Train

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical skill in operating this 130-ton capacity die stamping press will soon be applied to far more important production. This employee of an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern is shown stamping out mounting frames for jukeboxes. When the boxes have been completed, this company will devote a large percentage of its time and space to production of electrical devices to be used by the Army and Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

[Chief Meyers, New York, NL & Chief Bender, Philadelphia, AL at World Series (baseball)]

First baseball stamp comes off press. Washington, D.C., May 26. Postmaster General James. A. Farley points to the first batch of the new baseball stamps as they come off the press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today. The stamp is being issued and will be first placed on sale at Cooperstown, N.Y., where it is said the first game was played. Alvin Hall, Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is shown with the Postmaster General

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1926
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Alvin Bishop to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, July 16, 1860 (Campaign efforts in New York)

Alvin T. Fuller & family - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[James A. Farley, right] - Public domain portrait photograph

Graf Zeppelin stamps go? Assistant Postmaster General Frederic A. Tilton purchasing the first Graf Zeppelin stamps which were sold at the Washington city post office today. Mrs. M.C. Shaughnessy, Assistant Philatolic Agent, is shown selling the stamps to the General. Others in the photograph, left to right: Assistant Washington Postmaster W.H. Haycock; Philip H. Ward, editor, Makeel's Weekly Stamp News; Assistant Postmaster General Tilton; L. Eidsness, superintendent, Division of Stamps; and William M. Mooney, Washington Postmaster

The several acts relative to the stamp duties, passed at the late and present sessions of Congress, and which will become payable from and after the first day of July, 1798. To which is added, a table of the several duties, by which they may be seen at one view

Huey P. Long Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River approximately midway between nine & twelve mile points upstream from & west of New Orleans, Jefferson, Jefferson Parish, LA

A view of the obelisk erected under Liberty-tree in Boston on the rejoicings for the repeal of the ---- Stamp Act 1766. / Paul Revere, sculp.

Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Exterior of Bureau of Engraving and Printing at night from across Tidal Basin I

Huey P. Long Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River approximately midway between nine & twelve mile points upstream from & west of New Orleans, Jefferson, Jefferson Parish, LA

Nurse training. A student nurse, acting as physical therapist, points to the picture book, thus encouraging this toddler to learn to use his crutches

Huey P. Long Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River approximately midway between nine & twelve mile points upstream from & west of New Orleans, Jefferson, Jefferson Parish, LA

Huey P. Long Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River approximately midway between nine & twelve mile points upstream from & west of New Orleans, Jefferson, Jefferson Parish, LA

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district of columbia washington dc glass negatives baseball stamp first baseball stamp press postmaster general james postmaster general james farley points farley points batch first batch baseball stamps sale cooperstown game first game alvin hall alvin hall director sports new york sports new york baseball united states history library of congress bureau of engraving and printing