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  • 2022 Annual meeting PIPEX, April 29-30, May 1 – Embassy Suites by Hilton
    Portland Airport, 7900 NE 82nd Avenue, Portland, OR
  • 2023 Annual Meeting NOJEX, Meadowlands, NJ

USSS to Fund Postal History Journal Digitization

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The United States Stamp Society has agreed to provide $3,550 to fund the digitization of the complete run (1957 to present) of the Postal History Journal (PHJ) of the Postal History Society (PHS). The Board of Governors believes that funding the PHJ digitization would be an important contribution towards philatelic research. The total number of pages to be digitized is estimated at 11,680. Scanning will be performed by American Philatelic Research Library staff using the library’s book scanning equipment. Pages will be scanned in color, even if the issue is entirely black and white, for the best image quality. The scans will be delivered in PDF format with optical character recognition so they are fully searchable.
The APRL will retain the right to make available to American Philatelic Society (APS) members the scanned issues, presented as whole issues, except for the most recent five years. USSS members, via the USSS website, will also have similar access. The complete digitized journal will be available to PHS members, and in return for the USSS funding, the PHS will acknowledge USSS support on their website, create a link on their site to the United States Stamp Society, and publish, fee-free, a USSS membership advertisement in all three of their journal issues each year for a period of two years, and thereafter at the discretion of the PHJ editor.

 

 

USSS Annual Meeting at WESTPEX 2019 April 26 – April 29

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USSS Will hold its 2019 Annual Meeting at Westpex San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront, 1800 Old Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010. Visit the show website at Westpex.com. Each year the Society holds an annual meeting at a different World Series of Philately show. In addition to presentations by members, we also hold our traditional Fellowship Diner and those members who exhibit at the show are eligible for the Hugh M. Southgate Award for the best multi-frame exhibit and the W. Wallace Cleland Award for the best single frame exhibit. These awards are only available at our annual meeting.

Please take a few minutes to stop by our booth. It may prove to be the most enjoyable time you spend at the show.

 

 

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