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Christmas and Easter seals stamp collection : and related material, 1907-1984.
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Christmas and Easter seals stamp collection: and related material, 1907-1984Creator/Contributor:
Doerr, Edward, 1902-1984, creator, collector.Creator/Contributor:
National Easter Seal Society (U.S.)Creator/Contributor:
American Lung AssociationCreator/Contributor:
National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease AssociationCreator/Contributor:
American Red CrossAbstract:
Contains two separate stamp collecting albums for Christmas and Easter Seals. Albums contain single stamps and sheets. Christmas
Seals album contents include the first seal issued in 1907 by the American Red Cross through 1983 by the American Lung Association.
The Easter Seals album contains stamps from the first seal issued in 1934 to the 50th year of Easter Seals stamp in 1984.
Includes two handwritten inventories of the album contents. Also includes related materials concerning stamp collecting such
as the publication, The Pennant (Vol. 35, No. 3, July-Sept. 1948) containing Christmas Seal images from 1907 to 1948, four
National Tuberculosis Association inventory sheets of stamp images covering the years 1907 to 1971 correspondence, dealer
price lists, etc.
Date:
1907 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Seals and labels (Philately) -- United States
Stamp collecting -- Societies, etc
Timbres de Noël, de Pâques, etc -- États-Unis
Philatélie -- Associations
Seals and labels (Philately)
Stamp collecting -- Societies, etc
United States
Doerr, Edward -- 1902-1984 -- Archives
Note:
Transfer ; From Regional Oral History Office ; 19990204.
Edward Doerr was born and raised in Lehr, North Dakota. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1926 and taught
school in Ashley, North Dakota for six years before becoming Superintendant of Schools in McIntosh County. He moved to Lodi,
California in 1948.
Preferred citation: Christmas and Easter seals stamp collection, 1907-1984, BANC MSS 2012/119, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
stamp albums.Archives.
Physical Description:
print
1 oversize box (0.4 linear feet)
Language:
English