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1 6 6 • s m i t h s o n i a n c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o h i s t o ry a n d t e c h n o l o g yCheryl R. Ganz (ganzc@si.edu) is chief curator of philatelyat the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, co-editor ofThe Zeppelin Collector, and past president of the AmericanAir Mail Society. This article is drawn from her presentationat the 2007 Postal History Symposium and her bookThe 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress.Robin Gates Elliott holds a doctorate in history fromGeorgetown University. Her specialty is the history ofRussia and Eastern Europe. She is a docent at the SmithsonianNational Postal Museum.Catherine J. Golden (CGolden@skidmore.edu) is professor ofEnglish at Skidmore College. She is the author of Posting It:The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing (2009) and Imagesof the Woman Reader in Victorian British and AmericanFiction (2003) as well as editor or co-editor of five books, includingCharlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall- Paper’:A Sourcebook and Critical Edition (2004) and Book Illustrated:Text, Image, and Culture 1770–1930 (2000).Terence Hines, Ph.D. (thines@pace.edu) is a neuroscientistat Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, and NY MedicalCollege, Valhalla, New York. His major philatelic interestsare the postal history of his home town of Hanover,New Hampshire, modern U.S. special delivery postal history,the state revenue stamps of New England, Old HomeWeek seals, and the revenue stamps of the Dutch Indiesand Indonesia.Richard R. John (rrj2115@columbia.edu) teaches the historyof communications at the Columbia School of Journalismat Columbia University. His publications includeNetwork Nation (Belknap Press, 2010) and Spreadingthe News: The American Postal System from Franklin toMorse (Harvard University Press, 1995).Janet Klug (Tongajan@aol.com) is a lifelong stamp collectorwho now specializes in military postal history. Shehas served as president of her local stamp club, officer ofmany specialist societies, and president of the AmericanPhilatelic Society. She is a member of the Smithsonian NationalPostal Museum’s Council of Philatelists and wasrecently appointed a member of the Citizens’ Stamp AdvisoryCommittee of the U.S. Postal Service.Thomas Lera (lerat@si.edu) is the Winton M. BlountResearch Chair at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum,past president of National Philatelic Exhibitions(NAPEX), and member of the American Philatelic Societyand the Royal Philatelic Society of London.Larry Lyons (lyonsentrp@aol.com) is the editor of TheCarrier & Locals Society Journal and has been a studentand collector in this field for over twenty years. Heis an award-winning exhibitor and a frequent speaker onUnited States carriers and local posts.Harvey Mirsky (harveymirsky@aol.com) specializes incollecting the U.S. 1847 issue. His multi-frame exhibit haswon several large gold medals internationally and is nowexhibited in the F. I. P. Championship Class. Mr. Mirskyis a member of the Council of Philatelists at the NationalPostal Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and serveson the board of governors of the Collectors Club. He isalso a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London.Rachel Moore (rchico@clemson.edu) is assistant professorof history at Clemson University. Her first book, TransientLoyalties: The Atlantic World and the Public Voicein Nineteenth-Century Veracruz (University of ArizonaPress, 2011), examined the impact of communication andcredibility on regional identities in Mexico. She is at workon her second book, currently titled Tampering with theNation: Postal Workers, Corruption and Communicationin Mexico, 1794 to 1883.Ann Elizabeth Pfau (annepfau@yahoo.com) is an historianand writer living in Albany, New York. She is the authorof Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity duringWorld War II (http://www.gutenberg-e.org/pfau) and iscurrently researching a second book on the lives and legendsof Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose.David L. Straight (dls@mophil.org) has built a boyhoodstamp collection into an adult fascination with collecting,researching, and writing about postal history, particularlythe operation of the U.S. Post Office Department duringthe nineteenth century. He is a librarian at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, vice-president of the AmericanPhilatelic Society, and a member of the Museum AdvisoryCouncil for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.Thomas Velk (thomas.velk@mcgill.ca) is director, NorthAmerican Studies Program, McGill University; a formervisiting professor and consultant, Board of Governorsof the Federal Reserve System; former visiting professor,Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress; formervisiting professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NewHampshire; and a freelance journalist for various NorthAmerican media outlets.