ISSUE 180 - December 5, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yesterday in Mekeel’s:
The U.S. Postage Stamp, 1870-1900
by Lowell S. Newman & Peter T. Rohrbach
Introduction: National Issue
This chronicle picks up the story of the U.S. postage stamp in 1870 during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, and it traces the growth and development of the stamp during the last three decades of the 19th Century, that pivotal epoch for the nation as it prepared to move into the modern age of the 20th century.
In our earlier volume, “American Issue: The U.S. Postage Stamp, 1842-1869,” we traced the beginnings of the American postage stamp, starting with the first American stamp back in 1842, issued privately by the City Despatch Post in New York, and then the first federal stamps in 1847. We saw postal services grow and flourish during the 1850s and saw the American posts become bifurcated during the Civil War when . . .
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