Air post stamped envelopes became available to the public on January 12, 1929. These stamped envelopes carried the red and blue border design that marked U.S. Airmail stationery for most of the 20th century. Here are some examples of U.S. Airmail stamped envelopes. Issued June 28, 1971. Issued May 21, 1947. Issued May 2, 1956. Advanced AirMail features (6) CC's, mailing list, relay (2) Shadowmail (2) Dealers for Pactor Modems, SSB's (1) Downloads (3) Iridium GO! (2) Pactor/SSB installation (9) Position Reporting (2) Problem and Installation FAQ (13) Pactor modems and connecting to them (2) Satellite Phones (10) Globalstar (1) Inmarsat (2) Iridium Handsets (3.
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I have always loved ballet. Cherished childhood lessons grew into an infatuation thanks to the international stars I saw perform during my teens. Adult demands, however, redirected my energies toward business, and then fashion history, and my ardor for ballet slumbered. For decades, my eyes skimmed over the midcentury evening dresses—fitted satin bodices, voluminous tulle skirts—that filled the fashion editorials and museum costume collections I studied in depth. Quietly these beautiful images and garments assembled themselves in my subconscious. About three years ago, I began to ponder how modern fashion came to appropriate these elements of the classical ballerina’s raiment. And why? Paste 2 5 6 0.
My awakening was the serendipitous discovery of an essay by the brilliant Lincoln Kirstein, published in a 1933 issue of Vogue magazine. Ballet, he wrote, had “a glamour, a romantic pungency, unsurpassed by any other art form.” He also believed that Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had exerted “a profounder effect on the worlds of painting, music, fashion, and decorative arts than any other single influence.” Eureka! The article was a clarion call that illuminated my subliminal cache and inspired my latest exhibition—opening on February 11 at the Museum at F.I.T.—“Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse.” This idea now seems obvious to me. But because no major study on the subject had ever been undertaken, it took Kirstein’s words to crystallize my thesis. Classical ballet’s impact on high fashion had finally arrived.
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Post Office Department airmail pilots never carried U.S. airmail stamped envelopes. The first U.S. air post stamped envelopes became available to the public on January 12, 1929. These stamped envelopes carried the red and blue border design that marked U.S. airmail stationery for most of the 20th century.
Here are some examples of U.S. airmail stamped envelopes.
Issued June 28, 1971
Issued May 21, 1947
Issued May 2, 1956
Airmail 2000
Issued September 26, 1932
Air Mail 1932 Movie
Issued September 26, 1946