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Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. [20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased ...
Ross Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown 1898. (Photo by Arnold Genthe). It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.
The Museum of the City of San Francisco was founded in 1991 by Gladys Hansen, who had recently retired as the city archivist of San Francisco. It was recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco by the Board of Supervisors in 1995. [3] The museum had a small exhibit space at The Cannery (a former Del Monte fruit-canning plant ...
San Francisco Examiner; San Francisco Herald; San Francisco Independent; San Francisco Progress (1918-1988) SF Weekly; Shinsekai asahi shinbun [New World Sun] (1932-1941) Shin sekai [New World] (1912-1932) Sinhan Minbo; South San Francisco enterprise (1907-1938) Star Presidian (1952-1972) Sun-Reporter; Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper (1957 ...
1. Parent. Chachas family [1] Website. gumps .com. Gump's is a luxury American home furnishings and home décor retailer, founded in 1861 in San Francisco, California. [2] The company was acquired by the Chachas family in June 2019 and announced that it would be opening a San Francisco location for the holiday season as well as an e-commerce ...
San Francisco Mint. / 37.7701; -122.4273. The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint. Opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California Gold Rush, in twenty years its operations exceeded the capacity of the first building. It moved into a new one in 1874, now known as the Old San Francisco Mint.
The San Francisco Historical Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and presentation of the history of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. [1] It is a membership-based organization that holds monthly speaking programs, conducts walking tours of San Francisco and publishes original research.