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Before cable news and email and Twitter, it was the postal service that transmitted ideas and information across land, sea, and political divides. Kim speaks with National Postal Museum chief curator Dan Piazza about some of the messages that stamps themselves were communicating, including a few asides from Philatelist-in-Chief, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
We also pair some noteworthy stamps to original artwork that lives right here at the National Portrait Gallery.
See the portraits we discuss:
Benjamin Franklin by Duplessis
Franklin’s stamp
Roosevelt and the Little White House
Roosevelt at his desk
Susan B. Anthony, bronze bust
Susan B. Anthony, three cents
Susan B. Anthony, photograph
Susan B. Anthony, fifty cents
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable
Benjamin Banneker
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Before cable news and email and Twitter, it was the postal service that transmitted ideas and information across land, sea, and political divides. Kim speaks with National Postal Museum chief curator Dan Piazza about some of the messages that stamps themselves were communicating, including a few asides from Philatelist-in-Chief, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
We also pair some noteworthy stamps to original artwork that lives right here at the National Portrait Gallery.
See the portraits we discuss:
Benjamin Franklin by Duplessis
Franklin’s stamp
Roosevelt and the Little White House
Roosevelt at his desk
Susan B. Anthony, bronze bust
Susan B. Anthony, three cents
Susan B. Anthony, photograph
Susan B. Anthony, fifty cents
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable
Benjamin Banneker

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