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Post Offices

Online Sources

  • American Philatelic Research Library
  • Idaho Historical Society
  • The Railway Mail Service Library
  • Library of Congress
  • List of Early Post Offices in Idaho. (PDF) Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series #103. July 1963.
  • National Archives guide to Post Office Records
  • Postal History, U.S. Postal Service
  • Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Print Resources

Books

  • Ramsey, Guy Reed. Postmarked Idaho: a list of Idaho post offices. Boise, Idaho: Idaho State Historical Society, 1975.
  • Adams, Mildretta. Sagebrush post offices: a history of the Owyhee Country. Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho State University Press, 1986.
  • Huntley, James L. Ferryboats in Idaho. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1979.
  • Bolton, Chris. Neither rain nor sleet … a history of the Post Office. Twin Falls, Idaho: Spudgrafix & Pig Inna Pok Press/Printed at Desktop by Design, 2003.
  • Landis, Robert L. Post offices of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Portland, Oregon: Patrick Press, 1969.
  • Patera, Alan H., and John S. Gallagher. A checklist of Idaho post offices. Burtonsville, Maryland: The Depot, 1984.

Maps

  • Post Route Map of the State of Idaho Showing Post Offices. 1:766,000. United States Post Office Department. (various years) David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford University. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/71i5z0. Accessed December 3, 2020.
  • Post route map of the states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of December, 1903. 1:888,000. U.S. Postal Service. https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cj82km95s. Accessed December 3, 2020.
Photo of the Idaho City Post Office taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey
Historic American Buildings Survey, James A Pinney, S C Silsby, Mary Hornberger, and City Of Idaho City. Post Office Block, Northwest corner of Wall & Montgomery Streets, Idaho City, Boise County, ID. Boise County Idaho Idaho City, 1933. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/id0024/.

Post Office Art and Architecture

  • Living New Deal
  • Off The Wall: New Deal Post Office Murals, Smithsonian Postal Museum

Idaho WPA Murals

  • Blackfoot Post Office: The Arrival Celebration by Andrew Standing Soldier, 1939.
  • Buhl Post Office: Snake River Ferry by Richard Guy Walton, 1941.
  • Burley Post Office: Pioneer on the Oregon Trail along the Snake River by Elizabeth Lochrie, 1938.
  • Kellogg Post Office: Discovery by Fletcher Martin, 1941.
  • Preston Post Office: The Battle of Bear River by Edmund J. Fitzgerald, 1941.
  • St. Anthony Post Office: The Fur Traders by Elizabeth Lochrie, 1939.

 

This page posted by rjoiner on December 3, 2020.

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