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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Panama Canal Zone First Day Cover
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Panama Canal Zone First Day Cover

Object numberMO 1953.433
Name Cover, First Day
Maker (American philatelic cachet specialist, 1881 - 1947)
Date1939
Mediumpaper
Dimensionsoverall H 3 5/8 in x W 6 1/2 in (9.2 cm x 16.5 cm )
DescriptionAn unused envelope with a thermographic cachet honoring the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal Zone on August 15, 1939. The purple cachet features a paragraph on the Gatun Spillway headed by the text: 25TH ANNIVERSARY / OPENING / THE PANAMA CANAL / FIRST DAY CANAL ZONE ISSUE. At the bottom of the cachet is an illustration of the canal with the dates "1914" and "1939", on which has been adhered a small black and white photograph of a spillway with water flowing through it with the caption below: Gatun Spillway in Operation. Printed in the upper right corner of the envelope: U. S. / Postage / 3 Cents.
Label TextThis envelope is one in a group of twenty-four First Day covers (MO 1953.420-MO 1953.443) produced by philatelist Walter G. Crosby to honor the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal Zone on August 15, 1939.
Additional Details
Credit LineEstate of Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesStamp Collecting Materials (National Archives Identifier 749938)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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