In the early 1840s, railroads were a very new form of transportation in the US. The first common carrier railroad in the US was the...

Early in 2023, I purchased at auction a box full of covers. I don't know the exact number, but it was certainly more than a couple of...

Not many American companies can trace back their roots more than 200 years. DuPont is one of those. Organized in 1802 in Delaware - where...

(This article was published in The United States Specialist, March 2024, Vol. 95, No. 3, Whole Number 1129, pp. 113-114. A PDF is...

This is a Civil War-era cover that includes the original letter from a Union solider to his wife. The cover (Figures 1 and 2) has a...