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"
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