The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP) was founded by James MacQueen. While a young man, he lived on Grenada and managed a sugar plantation. He traveled throughout the Caribbean, forming ideas on the flow of trade and correspondence. He created a plan, which he coaxed through the British Parliament, and in 1837 he was [...]
Archive for April, 2011
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Posted in Art, Mail, Postal History, Postcards on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Squirrels Like Mail, Too
Posted in Art, Mail on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Illustration by Cyril Cowell
Mail Call for Elvis
Posted in Music, Postal History on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Elvis Presley reads mail while serving in the Third Armored “Spearhead” Division in Germany, circa 1959.
Ex Libris
Posted in Art, Literature on April 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A beautiful bookplate is a lovely surprise when one picks up an old book, and the British Museum is publishing a collection of bookplates from its collection, entitled Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates by Martin Hopkinson, in the very near future. My thanks to Laurie Winship for the discovery.
More Mail Art
Posted in Art, Postal History on April 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Illustration by Paul Stahr (1883-1953) for Judge magazine, 1919, in which we see that even Air Mail is subject to flight delays. An illustration of the Post Office in the Government Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, in Chicago, by Victor Perard (1870-1957).
Hmmm
Posted in Mail, Postal History on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A puzzling choice in the 1950s on 12th Street in Washington, D.C.
Why Do We No Longer Dress for Mailing?
Posted in Mail, Postal History on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Image circa 1939, from the collection of the National Postal Museum.
Postal Justice
Posted in Art, Postal History on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jack Ziegler in The New Yorker
Postal Chivalry
Posted in Art, Mail, Postal History on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From a Rally Day postcard published by The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, postmarked 1913, with an illustration by W.N.W.
Anna Banana
Posted in Art, Mail on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The cover of Fe Mail Art, issue number six of Vile magazine, 1978. Just listed my copy on eBay; parting is such sweet sorrow.
