The National Postal Museum
Upstairs from the Museum - the old Post Officce
This was Washington’s Main Post Office
This is the place to mail a letter
This is the place to prepare mail
Detail of marble tables
Even more detail
Dowstairs - Benjamin Franklin Foyer
Duck Stamps
Entering g the main portion of the postal Museum
International mail boxes
The stagecoach
The dogsled
The dog. (Not the one that pulled the sled)
Inside a rail car sorting station
Closer look at the stagecoach
The many newspapers
Manifest Destiny and the post
Immigrants and the mail
Postal Inspection
and postal crime
Urban mail
More mailboxes
A postal sled
The exhibit of mail boxes
More of that exhibit
Camera mailbox
Uncle Sam Mail box
The muffler mailbox
More of that equipment for sleet or snow
The Hologram of Tiffany
The mail order exhibit
Julie answers questions
More international post boxes
Moving the mail via the air
Julie in the National Stamp Collection
One of the sets of stamps
Closeup on some stamps from India
The rarest US stamp - with a Z grill.
Julie and our son make a postcard for grandma
George gets the post card
George mails the postcard
The art of the stamp
More of the art of the stamp
Postal inventions
Detail of the fantastic ceiling
Photo Album for Washington TravelCast Episode 73 - National Postal Museum