United States. Post Office Dept. records, 1789-1912.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 5 itemsSubject(s): - Brown, E. F
- Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822 -- Correspondence
- Habersham, Joseph, 1751-1815 -- Correspondence
- Osgood, Samuel, 1748-1813 -- Correspondence
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 -- Correspondence
- Cavetown Post Office (Cavetown, Md.)
- Hamilton Post Office (Hamilton, Ohio)
- United States. Postmaster General
- Postal service -- Maryland -- Cavetown
- Postal service -- Ohio -- Hamilton
- Postal service -- United States -- History
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Handwritten transcript of a letterbook of (1789 November 28-1805 March 15) containing copies of letters by postmasters general Gideon Granger, Joseph Habersham, Samuel Osgood, and Timothy Pickering; chart (1807) made by Gideon Granger; accounts (1804-1805, 1807) for the post office at Hamilton, Ohio; record book (1899 April 11-1906 September 25) of the post office at Cavetown, Md.; and essay (1912) entitled, Annals of the Post Office Department, 1607-1775, by E.F. Brown.
United States Office of the Postmaster General created by Continental Congress, July 26, 1775; United States General Post Office created by Congress, September 22, 1789, under the direction of the Postmaster General; United States Post Office Department created as government agency by Congress, February 20, 1792; reorganized as United States Postal Service in 1970.
Collection material in English.
Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.
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