envelope
date: label: date made
content: 1941-12-08
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Hawaii, Oahu, Pearl Harbor
label: associated place
content: United States: Hawaii, Oahu, Pearl Harbor
topic: label: used
content: Communication, letter writing
label: related event
content: Pearl Harbor, Attack on
label: related event
content: World War II
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Slingerland Pearl Harbor Letters
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content: Military
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0208.01.01
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0208.01.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0208
objectType: label: Object Name
content: envelope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 16.51 cm