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- Description
- Envelope sent from Mrs. John Slingerland, 3852 Lurline Dr., Honolulu, to Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Haskell, 177 Ardmore Rd., Berkeley, California. Posted on December 8, 1941 at 2:00pm. Envelope is an Air Mail enveloped ringed in red and blue stripes and has a green 20 cent United States Air Mail stamp with an airplane on it. Stamped across the stamp are the words "BUY DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS". Written in ink on the reverse of the envelope is "Came on first clipper after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Honolulu" and "1st" indicating that it is the first letter in a series of two that were sent.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- envelope
- date made
- 1941-12-08
- place made
- United States: Hawaii, Oahu, Pearl Harbor
- associated place
- United States: Hawaii, Oahu, Pearl Harbor
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 16.51 cm
- ID Number
- 2015.0208.01.01
- catalog number
- 2015.0208.01.01
- accession number
- 2015.0208
- subject
- Communication, letter writing
- Pearl Harbor, Attack on
- World War II
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Slingerland Pearl Harbor Letters
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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