U.S. postal service

This 75-page tabletop book is also a stamp album, with spaces to mount commemorative Olympic stamps inside the book. Each page contains a vivid color portrait of an Olympic superstar. With a dedication by the Postmaster General of the United States, the book explains the enduring stamp design process in detail. The United States Olympic commemorative postage stamp issue of 1984 was truly one of a kind.

This pocket-sized hardcover book was published in 1946—the 50-year anniversary of rural free delivery by the U.S. postal service. The advent of rural delivery service made a big difference in the lives of farmers. Before rural free delivery, many farmers had to travel long distances to pick up their mail at the nearest post offices, or pay someone else to pick it up for them. This copy was donated by the National Rural Letter Carriers Association 40 years after publication.

This book contains over 250 pages of letters to and from the Postmaster General, along with charts and tables. It documents the work of mail agents who carried mail from the eastern states to California by steamship until the completion of the transcontinental railroad in the late 1860s. Professor Theron Wierenga wrote this book for his students, after his son was born.