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August 2010 Issue of the NJPH Journal NEW JERSEY ILLUSTRATED LETTER SHEETS
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These items were made popular by the nice ones that exist from the California Gold Rush days, and those used during the Civil War, where they depicted contemporary scenes at the top of the letter sheet, the rest of which was then used to write a letter.
Earliest examples usually included an attached sheet and were used as stampless folded letters.
Later ones were more like letterheads, and were sent enclosed in envelopes.
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These were done for other locales, to promote a certain city or tourist destination. Few have been seen for New Jersey, but we illustrate four of these here – first, the sheet above is a sheet for Speedwell Works in Morristown, NJ – it shows a full view of the works, and lists below the products they manufactured. The date has been determined from the address of the printer, and from concurrent city directory addresses, to be 1832 or 1833. It was produced by D. J. Johnson, 67 Liberty Street, New York. Any attached sheet is long gone. (It is possible that this was not a letter sheet, but a frontispiece to some Speedwell Works publication.)
The sheet above shows an 1853 map of Newark in great detail. Note the dateline of 185___. Both this sheet and the one below were produced by Charles Magnus , the first with an address of 22 North William St., New York and the second at 12 Frankfort Street, New York.
This one was done to advertise Egg Harbor City, N.J. – probably for its attractiveness as a tourist destination. The printer is Charles Magnus, as indicated above, and the sheet is dated in the printer’s data as 1866.
This last sheet was created for the South Jersey Institute, a secondary school of good repute in Bridgeton, NJ. No printer is indicated on this sheet. Whether it was done as a letterhead for the school, or (more likely) for use by students for letter writing, is unknown. There are faint writing guidelines on this sheet. The school was founded in 1870, and we suspect this sheet dates from around that time, as the school had a much more weathered appearance by 1906, as the post card, postmarked 1906, shows.
Our thanks to member Joe Felcone for the illustrations used here. We would be happy to see information showing other New Jersey letter sheets – please contact Secretary@NJPostalHistory.org with any information or scans.
Past Featured Covers
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May 2010 Issue of the NJPH Journal Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America!
Treasure Island Scout Camp occupies a fifty-seven acre island in the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The camp is operated by the Cradle of Liberty Council (formerly the Philadelphia Council), Boy Scouts of America. Read more.....
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February 2010 Issue of the NJPH Journal featuring a 1995 cover of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, the last of the conventionally-powered US aircraft carriers, decommissioned in 2009.
This great ship served almost 50 years in service of her country.
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November 2009 Issue of the NJPH Journal featuring a Holiday Greetings from Viet Nam
Just before Christmas of 1971, a GI-produced Christmas card was distributed to the troops of the 101st Airborne for them to send home. A hand-made envelope served to carry it home to New Jersey.
As it was late in December, member Jim Walker used a U.S. air mail stamp instead of the usual free frank available to soldiers in combat,
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August 2009 Issue of the NJPH Journal featuring a a Graf Zeppelin cover.
L127 First Trip to the USA in 1928. Special credit to John Trosky for this nice article!
WEB-SITE SPECIAL: an addendum to this article with additional information on an originating 1928 LZ-127 cover from Len Peck!
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May 2009 Issue of the NJPH Journal featuring a DPO cover from Maurer, New Jersey.
A pretty little letter sheet invitation from a local hotel in Maurer (now part of Perth Amboy, Middlesex County), NJ turned up at the Garfield-Perry Show in Cleveland, in JWF (Jim Faber’s) stock. Used in 1905, it is from a community that literally does not exist anymore. The location is now the site of a large “tank farm” belonging to Chevron.Read more..... |
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February 2009 Issue of the NJPH Journal featuring a cameo campaign cover.
A December 15, Hoboken, NJ postmarked Embossed Cameo Campaign Envelope produced by William Eaves was offered this March by Robert A. Siegel Auctions featuring a beardless Abe Lincoln. Only a few examples are known. This Hoboken, New Jersey cover hammered on March 25, 2009 for $2600.00 before the 15% buyers premium! Read more..... |
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November 2008 Issue of the NJPH Journal featuring a cover of seasonal greeting.
A RFD ”Season’s Greetings” post card, cancelled December 24, 1915 with a Pittstown, NJ postmark, sent by the carrier on Route 2 out of Pittstown to the people along his route. Special thanks to Member Jim Walker for sharing this cover. Read more..... |
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