Object Loans to Other Institutions

Below are National Postal Museum object loans, current and past. Please contact the borrowing institution directly for information regarding exhibits, public hours and access.

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California

The Autry in Griffith Park
Loan Objects:
1) Rural letter carrier's handmade sorting bag
2) Odometer by American Taximeter Company
3) Silver Century Rural Free Delivery mailbox
4) RFD letter carrier cap badge
Dates: June, 2014 - January, 2015

Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona 
Loan Objects: V-Mail (World War II era letters), mailbag and mailbox
Dates: August 2004 - October 2004

Blackhawk Museum, Danville 
Loan Objects: stamp designs and drawings by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dates: January 2009 - July 2009

Connecticut

Western Connecticut State University, Danbury 
Loan Objects: commemorative stamps for an exhibit celebrating James Joyce
Dates: June 2003 - September 2003

Bruce Museum, Greenwich
Loan Object: Benjamin Franklin painting by artist Lloyd Branson
Dates: September 2006 - December 2006

Louisiana

Louisiana State Exhibit Museum 
Loan Objects: Napoleonic covers for "The Louisiana Purchase: Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon" exhibition
Dates: July 2003 - January 2004

Missouri

Union Station Kansas City, Kansas City 
Loan Objects: Benjamin Franklin painting by Lloyd Branson
Dates: March 2003 - June 2003

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
Loan Object: Replica of Owney (the railway mail dog) and four tags
Dates: February 2004 - March 2006

Nebraska

Durham Western Heritage Museum, Omaha 
Loan Objects: Nautilus handstamp and cover, Cliff Claven's uniform from the TV show Cheers, postal vehicle and miscelleneous postal history objects
Dates: July 2004 - March 2005

Nevada

Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas 
Loan Objects: 1950s first day covers
Dates: February 2006 - February 2009

New York

Museum of American Finance
Loan Object: Postal Inspector John Clum’s retirement watch fob
Dates: November 19, 2015 - December, 2016

9/11 Memorial Museum
Loan Object: New York, NY, Sept. 11, 2001, postmark handstamp
Dates: May 2014 - Indefinite

Museum of American Financial History, New York City
Loan Objects: engraving tools used by Elie Timothee Loizeaux, American Bank Note Company engraver
Dates: March 2002 - March 2003

North Carolina

North Carolina Transportation Museum
Loan Object: Railway Post Office car
Dates: February 2006 - Indefinite

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences 
Loan Objects: objects related to Oscar Scott Woody, postal worker aboard the RMS Titanic, for "Titanic: the Artifact" exhibition
Dates: October 2003 - April 2004

Ohio

Crawford Museum of Transportation and Industry, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland
Loan Objects: Highway Post Office Bus No. 1
Dates: December 2000 - December 2006

McKinley Museum, Canton
Loan Objects: Objects related to a World War II-era 4th class post office
Dates: February 2002 - March 2014

Pennsylvania

National Constitution Center
Loan Object: Two-dozen egg crate
Dates: June 2015 - June 2018

National Constitution Center
Loan Object: Railway mailbag
Dates: May 2003 - June 2015

Senator John Heinz History Center
Loan Objects:
1) Ledger page from Franklin's GPO account book
2) Rate chart issued by Franklin and Foxcroft
Dates: April 2011 - July 2011

Texas

The Alameda National Center for Latino Arts and Culture, San Antonio
Loan Objects: USS Oklahoma handstamp plus several other objects
Dates: March 2007 - October 2007

Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future, Dallas 
Loan Objects: 
1) Amelia Earhart's flight suit, 
2) Airmail covers signed by Amelia Earhart
Dates: June 2000 - November 2006

Virginia

National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly
Loan Object: R2-D2 Mailbox
Dates: June 2008 - June 2016

Washington, D.C.

The George Washington University Museum, "For the Record: The Art of Lily Spandorf" exhibit
Loan Object: Lily Spandorf National Christmas Tree drawing
Dates: November 21, 2105 - July 2016

National Building Museum
Loan Object: A Century of Progress Graf Zeppelin block of four on cover
Dates: October 2010 - April 2011

National Park Service, Old Post Office Tower, 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Loan Object: Scale model of the Old Post Office Building
Dates: June 1997 - August 2006

Postal Regulatory Commission
Loan Object: paintings of mail transportation scenes by artist Lloyd Branson
Dates: December 1996 - Indefinate

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Canada

Canadian Postal Museum
Loan Object: "Cliff Claven's" uniform from the TV sitcom "Cheers"
Dates: October 2006 - April 2008

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Shanghai, China

Shanghai Postal Museum
Loan Object: Early 20th Century mail sack and watch belonging to Titanic Postal worker
Dates: December 2004 - October 2005

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Sweden

Postmuseum
Loan Object: John Lennon's childhood stamp album
Dates: May 2007 - November 2007

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