Finding Aid to the Philatelic Collection MS.518
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 September 28
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Philatelic Collection
Creator:
Tufts, Charlotte
Identifier/Call Number: MS.518
Physical Description:
1.3 Linear Feet
(3 albums, 1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1861-1983
Abstract: Items in this collection date from 1861-1983 and include stamps, covers or envelopes, newspaper clippings, typed articles,
and correspondence. Materials include an envelope collection of covers from 1861 that mostly deal with politics, race relations,
and the Civil War; stamps, covers, articles, and clippings spanning 1961-1969 and regarding mostly the American West, Native
Americans, and Mexico. Materials in this binder originate from the Czech Republic, Mexico, and the United States.
Language of Material:
English
.
This collection of stamps, envelopes, and related items was started by Southwest Museum librarian, Charlotte Tufts in 1966.
Items in the collection were accessioned between 1954 and 1983. Items in the collection date from 1861-1983 and include stamps,
covers or envelopes, newspaper clippings, typed articles, and correspondence.
The collection consists of four loose-leaf binders and one separate vertical file. Three of the binders hold an envelope collection
of covers from 1861 that mostly deal with politics, race relations, and the Civil War. One binder contains stamps, covers,
articles, and clippings spanning 1961-1969 and regarding mostly the American West, Native Americans, and Mexico. Materials
in this binder originate from the Czech Republic, Mexico, and the United States. The vertical file contains one stamp produced
in 1953 depicting the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, and was donated to the Southwest Museum by Dr. B. Sacks, 1954 June.
Processed by Glenna Schroeder, circa 1977-1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012
September 28, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Philatelic Collection, 1861-1983, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.518; [folder number] [folder
title][date].
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or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
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Donations from Dr. B. Sacks, 1954 June; Dr. V. S. Karpenko, 1966 June; Dr. Emil Holub; E. St. Vraz; and Southwest Museum Librarian
Charlotte Tufts.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Collectibles
Indians of North America
Clippings
Correspondence
Stamp collections
Mexico -- History -- Collectibles
Indians of North America -- History
Envelopes
Stamps
United States -- Politics and government
Notebook 1
Sheet of Mexican 10 cent stamps of various ships, 50 stamps, all different, 1967-8
Sheet of Mexican 10 cent stamps of coats of arms of Mexican states (?), 50 stamps, all different, 1966-7
Sheet of Mexican 10 cent stamps of different Mexican products, 50 stamps, all different, 1968-9
Mexican numbered souvenir sheets pre-Olympic stamps 1965, for Olympics in Mexico 1968 (2)
5 stamps, the ones displayed in the preceding entry
Newspaper clippings re: Mexican pre-Olympic stamp souvenir sheet
Marconi's Monthly Stamp News, re: archaeology on stamps
"American Indians on Czech stamps" June 1966, by B. Hlinka in Tropical Time, typed copy
Article on same from Western Stamp Collector 19 July 1966
Article on same from Linn's Weekly Stamp News
7 stamps as discussed above
Envelope with all 7 cancelled stamps
Article "Indians on postage stamps" by Charlotte Tufts from
Masterkey, 1967
Chief Joseph 6 cent stamp
Article on Chief Joseph stamp Linn's Weekly Stamp News, 7 Oct 1968
"Where the West begins"
"Where the West begins" cover with 5 cent "Jerked down" by Charles M. Russell stamp, 1966
Article regarding picture "Where the West begins" from
Philately, 30 July 1966
Article on sale of Henry H. Clifford Western Postal History Collection for $80,000 plus Western Stamp Collector, 25 Feb 1969
1st day of issue California 200th Anniversary of settlement and cover, 16 July 1969
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—San Diego
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—San Gabriel
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—San Buenaventura
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—map
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—Santa Barbara
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—San Luis Rey
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—Santa Inez
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—San Fernando
Cover 200th Anniversary Calif. missions—San Juan Capistrano
(all with California Centennial 1950 stamps)
Article Linn's Stamp Weekly, 7 July 1969, on American Legion stamp with Fremont Flag
3 covers, different Apache pictures
3 covers, Cocopah pictures
Airmail postcard with pictures & ad. "visit the USA"
"Last pack mail run" cover
Article on above cover WSC, 23 Nov 1965
"Visit the USA" aircard article Philately, 26 Apr 1966
Cover with "Ishi in 2 worlds" stamped on
Cover with "America's Tribute to the Indian" 8-11 Aug 1968
Alaska purchased Centennial covers, 1967
Seward Day, 30 March 1867
Copper day in Cordova, 8 Apr 1911
1st air mail to Nome, 18 May 1927
Cenpex, 5 July
Golden spike completing Alaska railroad, 15 July 1923
Train links Skagway & Whitehorse, 29, July 1908
Wickersham Day, 24 Aug 1912—Alaska became territory
Amundson at Nome, 1 Sept 1096
Discovery of gold on Anvil Creek, 20 Sept 1898
Russian territory becomes American—Sitka, 18 Oct 1867
Honoring early pilots, 9 Nov 1929
Article on Alaska Purchase stamp Western Stamp Collector, 12 Jan 1967
Cover 100th birthday of Frederick Remington, 1961
Cover Charles Marion Russell, 1964
Cover Cal Poly Pony Express ride, 1967
British postage meter stamp
Jeff Dykes Western books Envelope
Notebook 2, 3, box
292 Envelopes total. They have cartoon pictures and poetry, most often unmailed (all except 1 or 2 were not). Mostly Northern
and appear to be from 1861. The dated ones all are and none of the things being commented upon occurred after 1861.
Source uncertain. With them as a letter from Lummis to Colgrove (1910) which mentions book of War envelopes. Also advertisement
from a 1968 catalogue regarding a collection of over 800 being sold for $400.
34 covers—Animals
71 covers—Biographical
Genernal Benjamin F. Butler (2)
Jefferson Davis (22)
Elmer Ellsworth (11)
George B. McClellan (3)
Winfield Scott (10)
George Washington (8)
single envelopes:
Robert Anderson
Nathaniel P. Banks
P.G.T. Beauregard
John Brown
W.G. "Parson" Brownlow
Abraham Lincoln
Gen. Lyon
Wm. S. Rosecrans
Franz Siegal
Silas H. Stringham
John E. Wool
multiple biography (4)
Cotton (4)
Death symbols (13)
Devils (9)
Equipment (6)
Flags (58)
secession (7)
with eagles (10)
with Miss Liberty (13)
with people (16)
U.S.A. only (12)
Negroes (17)
State Emblems (24)
Uniforms and Military (18)
Women (9)
Miscellaneous (30)
Non-Civil War (1)