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| Exploring
Cuba’s Postal History, 1830-1939, through the Roberto
Pichs Collections is an overview of Cuba’s
postal history from the pre-philatelic period to 1939.
It includes “folded letters” (pre-philatelic
covers), stamped envelopes, and historic postcards, which
have never before been published.
This exhibition, with text by Joseph Geraci, Philatelist
(Emeritus) from the National Postal Museum, Smithsonian
Institution. |
| Cuba’s
Commercial Aviation History and the Pichs Collection
is especially strong in depictions of the history of aviation,
including many envelopes commemorative of events in Cuba’s
aviation history.
This exhibition presents the research of Ronald E.G. Davies,
Aviation Historian, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian
Institution. |
“PICHS COLLECTION
- CUBAN PHILATELY PROJECT”
A joint project of
the National Postal Museum (Smithsonian Institution)
and the San Carlos Institute (Key West, Florida)
Project under the direction
of:
Allen Kane, Director, National Postal Museum
Paul Michael Taylor and Rafael Peñalver,
Exhibition Co-curators / Co-editors
This collections-based project is co-curated by Dr. Rafael
Peñalver (President, San Carlos Institute) and Dr. Paul
Michael Taylor (Research Anthropologist and Curator, Department
of Anthropology National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution), under the auspices of the National
Postal Museum.
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Welcome to the home page of an ongoing research
and exhibition effort to study and bring to the public an important
research resource for the cultural history of Cuba, the Roberto
Pichs collection of Cuban postage stamps at the San
Carlos Institute (Key West, Florida).
(1) a digital database of information about Cuban philately,
based upon the San Carlos Institute’s collection assembled
by philatelist Roberto Pichs, along with the Cuban philatelic
holdings of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum;
and
(2) the preparation of virtual exhibits consisting of
an interconnected set of “explorations” or interpretations
of this collection.
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