Washington, D.C. Postage stamp storage vault for storing completed stamps at the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing

 

• Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
• 1938.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017764874/
  

Bureau Eng. & Ptg. Intaglio Web Press prints, [.],drives, preforates & completes postage stamps, [1914]

 

• [1914]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016852652/
  

Scenic Gems of America. Sheet of stamps consisting of Washington monuments

 

• Horydczak, Theodor, approximately 1890-1971, photographer
• ca. 1920-ca. 1950.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2019680819/
  

Bureau Engraving & Printing hydraulic press room for smoothing postage and revenue stamps, [1914]

 

• [1914]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016852672/
  

New perforating machine used by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for perforating postage stamps ...

 

• Photograph shows a woman seated at a perforating machine with Benjamin R. Stickney, the machine's designer, standing alongside.
• National Photo Company.
• [between 1909 and 1932]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2006692618/
  

[United States two cents postage stamp with head-and-shoulders portrait of James A. McNeill Whistler]

 

• 1940.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/93505044/
  

Gas ration stamps being printed, Bureau of Engraving & Printing / [WKL].

 

• Photograph shows gas ration stamps being inspected with a magnifying glass at the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, Washington, D.C.
• Leffler, Warren K., photographer
• 1974 Jan. 31.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2003673995/
  

Asst. P.M.G. Glover & stamp exhibit, 5/1/23

 

• [19]23 May 1.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016834702/
  

Treasury. Packing internal revenue stamps for shipment Stamps to the value of $1,000,000 packed daily.

 

• Photograph shows men working on tables to pack stamps; packages piled on the floor.
• [between 1909 and 1932]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2009632180/
  

This is the place to affix the stamp

 

Print shows a skull and crossbones representation of the official stamp required by the Stamp Act of 1765.

• Bradford, William, 1719-1791, publisher
• [1765 October 24]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2004672606/
  

[Workers in the postage stamp gumming and drying room in the Stamp Division at the Bureau of Engraving & Printing]

 

• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• [ca 1895]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2006692528/
  

"Say it with stamps" Buy!! Nassau County poster stamps : "What helps Nassau helps you!"

 

• Poster for Nassau County Association fund raising drive stamp sale showing the Trylon and Perisphere at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
• [New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, Dis. 4, [between 1936 and 1939]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/98514633/
  

[Man seated with a stamp vending machine]

 

• c1907.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2003654889/
  

Sugar rationing card showing stamps

 

• Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer
• 1942 May.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017825490/
  

Section of postage stamp vault. 1,500,000,000 stamps stored here

 

• Photograph shows a man in a storage vault holding a container of postage stamps.
• [between 1909 and 1932]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2006692613/
  

Bureau engraving & printing - stamp division

 

• Photograph shows interior view with women working at machines in the stamp division of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• [between 1890 and 1910]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2004679197/
  

Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Stamp Division

 

• Photograph shows woman and man printing sheet of stamps.
• Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
• [between 1889 and 1890]
• Cyanotypes
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2003654729/
  

[Walt Whitman 5 cent postage stamps]

 

• Four identical stamps from Famous Americans series show portrait of Whitman with hat.
• [United States] : [Bureau of Engraving and Printing], [1940]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2019630728/
  

War stamp bombing

 

• Baltimore, Maryland : [publisher not transcribed], [about 1918?]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2018696139/
  

Stamp machine, Bureau of Engraving

 

• Harris & Ewing, photographer
• [between 1905 and 1945]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016855501/