Philatelic Collection

Name/Title

Philatelic Collection

Entry/Object ID

MS.14

Scope and Content

Philatelic Collection MS 14 Philatelic Collection The items in this open collection include stamps, cancellations, first day covers, etc., which fall within the collection parameters of the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum [i. e., Boulder City, Colorado River, Hoover Dam, southern Nevada and surrounding areas]. * * *

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Manuscripts

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Archive Items Details

Notes

MS 14 Philatelic Collection inventory [this is an open collection] Box 1 folder no. 1. envelope from the first mail dispatched from the Boulder City Post Office [postmarked April 15, 1931] 2. Fast Mail Line receipts [1934-36] 3. Boulder City 50th anniversary cancellations [March 16, 1981] 4. first day of issue: inaugurating the United States Postal Service, July 1, 1971 [Boulder City, NV cancellation] 5. first day of issue: U. S. Army and Navy commemorative stamps [with portrait of Franklin Roosevelt, 1936-37 (color copy of an item in Broadsides and Posters - Box 1)] 6. telegraph blanks [1930s] 7. Searchlight, NV: 100th birthday cancellation [October 3, 1998] 8. stamped post cards and Boulder City envelope [ca. 1930s-40s] 9. stamps: Hoover [Boulder] Dam dedication commemorative [1935] with dam dedication day cancellations [September 30, 1935] 10. stamps: John Wesley Powell commemorative [1969] 11. stamps: 1¢ Benjamin Franklin with Boulder City, Nev. cancellation [1930s] 12. Boulder City Post Office dedication ceremony program [August 12, 1991] 13. postal money order receipts [1935] 14. Hoover [Boulder] Dam dedication program with a canceled dedication commemorative stamp [September 30, 1935] 15. Page, AZ: first day cover [October 12, 1957] 16. Page, AZ: U. S. Post Office dedication [1961] 17. Boulder City Post Office: last day cancellation of the old post office [June 15, 1958] and first day cancellation of the new post office [June 16, 1958] 18. Bullock Airport official opening envelope with December 10, 1933 cancellation 19. first day of issue: Nevada statehood centennial [July 22, 1964] a. state capitol b. Rinckel Mansion [with autograph of owner/curator Ann Rinckel Lindstrom] c. H. G. Blasdel [first governor]/Grant Sawyer [1964] d-h. St. Mary in the Mountains Cathedral, Virginia City i. Rinckel Mansion [with autograph and campaign card of University of Nevada Regent Ray Germain] 20. first day cover: Franklin D. Roosevelt 6¢ coil stamp [December 28, 1967] 21. Hoover Dam 50th anniversary cancellation [September 30, 1985] 22. last day cover: St. Thomas, NV [June 11, 1938] 23. first day of issue: 100th anniversary of the settlement of Nevada, 1851-1951 [postmarked Genoa, NV, July 14, 1951] 24. Boulder City, NV first flight air mail cancellation [AM 2 and AM 37], April 3, 1938 25. Boulder City, NV first flight air mail cancellation [AM 38], November 1, 1938 [one of them autographed by Boulder City Postmaster F. M. "Pops" Doolittle] 26. Hoover Dam - construction: railroad: "Thirty for No. 8810" hand-made envelope with photos, narrative, and two 1935 Hoover Dam dedication stamps commemorating the retirement of Hoover Dam diesel switch engine no. 8810 after 30 years' service (1931-1961), postmarked September 7, 1961] 27. Boulder City Bicentennial cancellation [July 4, 1976 (the actual item is stored in MS 69, Box 1, ff 1)] 28. cancellation [September 30, 1935] 29. air mail cancellations [1930s] 30. Hoover Dam dedication day cover [September 30, 1935] - autographed by postal officials 31. certificate with three Nevada centennial commemorative stamps [1951, 1959, 1964] Box 2 folder no. 1. John Wesley Powell's Colorado River voyage centennial [1869 - 1969] commemorative first day covers [eight; August 1, 1969] 2. Hoover Dam completion - commemorative cover [October 9, 1936 - October 9, 1979] 3. Herbert Hoover/Hoover Dam first day cover [August 10, 1965] 4. Overton, NV airport dedication [April 8, 1950] 5. Grand Canyon Airlines/Grand Canyon-Boulder Dam Tours - pre-certification flight envelope, Boulder City to Pierce's Ferry 6. stamp album [1870s-1930s] 7. first stamp/envelope cancelled at Boulder City, April 15, 1931, with a narrative letter from Elton Garrett to Fred Wilson [envelope autographed by postal officials James Finney (postmaster) and F. E. ? Smith (postal inspector)] 8. cachet - First Flight under contract over air mail route 18, Chicago-San Francisco; Reno, NV postmark, July 1, 1927 9. cachet - First Flight, air mail route 105, Reno-Phoenix, Dec. 19, 1949 [cachets for Las Vegas, Tonopah, Hawthorne, Minden, Carson City] 10. cachet - First Flight, Grand Canyon extension of air mail route 34, July 6, 1947 [this day only] 11. cachet - 40th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, 1903-43 12. National Park Service, 1916-1966 [50th anniversary] - first day cover, August 25, 1966 13. cachet - "Boudler [Dam] Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, October 9, 1936" * * *

Location

Location

* Untyped Location

Basement Archives

Date

February 19, 2025

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Powell, John Wesley

Person or Organization

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Person or Organization

Page, John C.

Person or Organization

Hoover, Herbert

Person or Organization

Doolittle, Ferris Mach "Pops"

Person or Organization

Finney, James L.

Person or Organization

Garrett, Elton

Related Entries

Notes

subject file [St.Thomas, NV] subject files [Airports and Aviation - Boulder City] subject file [Hoover Dam - construction: railroads: Old 8810 [aka BC and B (Boulder City and Back)]

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Create Date

July 7, 2002

Updated By

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Update Date

September 3, 2025