Nov
06

Today in Smithsonian History: November 6, 1990

The entrance to the Philatelic Rarities Vault of the National Postal Museum in the Old Washington City Post Office Building.

The entrance to the Philatelic Rarities Vault of the National Postal Museum in the Old Washington City Post Office Building. (Photo by Eric Long)

November 6, 1990 Smithsonian Secretary Robert McC. Adams and Anthony M. Frank, postmaster general of the U.S. Postal Service, sign an agreement to relocate the National Philatelic Collection to the new National Postal Museum.

Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives

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