Object Details
- 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
- 1941-12-08
- ID Number
- 2015.0208.01.01
- catalog number
- 2015.0208.01.01
- accession number
- 2015.0208
- Object Name
- envelope
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 16.51 cm
- place made
- United States: Hawaii, Oahu, Pearl Harbor
- associated place
- United States: Hawaii, Oahu, Pearl Harbor
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Slingerland Pearl Harbor Letters
- Military
- National Museum of American History
- used
- Communication, letter writing
- related event
- Pearl Harbor, Attack on
- World War II
- Record ID
- nmah_1764643
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-daf2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
