Details Publisher: Hannau-Robinson Color Productions Inc., Miami Beach, Florida Printer: Koppel Color, Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA Year: c.1969 Series: 102200 Series
View More Bahamas Philately: Hannau-Robinson Color Productions Inc (102200 Series)Details Publisher: Distributor: Printer: Dexter Press Inc, West Nyack, New York Process: Photographer: Year: 1971 Series: DT–74800-C (Type A) For Sun & Fun Visit The Bahamas
View More Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (DT-74800-C Series – Type A)Details Publisher: Printer: Printed in USA Year: 1954 Series:
View More Bahamas Philately: Printed in USA (Emerald Beach Hotel)Details Publisher: Ernie’s Studio & Camera Center Ltd, Freeport, Grand Bahamas Distributor: Printer: Dexter Press Inc, West Nyack, New York Process: Photographer: Larry Witt Year: 1964 Series: Dexter Supreme (DT-80000-B – Type B)
View More Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (DT-80000-B Series – Type B)The real stimulus for tourism in the Bahamas started around the early 1960s. Cuba was one of the few competitive tourism markets in the Caribbean that posed a threat to the Bahamas in the early days. Their tourism sector collapsed in the wake of the Cuban Revolution and the US…
View More Bahamas Philately: The 1960’sOne year after Independence celebrations, Prime Minister Lynden Pindling and the PLP government were facing critical level economic challenges. The economy had begun to stall, hotel unions were threatening strikes, and there were problems with the dollar. For tourism, there was wariness with the newly independent Bahamas and it faced…
View More Bahamas Philately: The 1970’sIn the four years prior to 1950, tourism arrivals to The Bahamas numbered about 32,000. In 1950, Sir Stafford Sands, a leading member of the Bahamas Government, revived the Tourism Development Board, giving it a budget of $500,000 which it used for extensive advertising and the opening of five overseas…
View More Bahamas Philately: The 1950’sA presentation by Alexander Haimann at The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
View More Smithsonian National Postal Museum: African American Women on Postage StampsAustralia’s pastoral prosperity has its origins in the period 1810-1850 when the land was opened up by explorers and pioneers. In these early times nearly everyone could be called a pioneer, from poor farmers clearing land to politicians trying to establish representative government. In each case a detail from a…
View More Australia Philately: 1989 The Pastoral Era (Pre-stamped Envelopes) – 39c Pioneers in the Pastoral EraAustralia’s pastoral prosperity has its origins in the period 1810-1850 when the land was opened up by explorers and pioneers. The Australian colonies were not easy places to administer. Governors and Civil Servants had to deal with factions among the people as well as the difficulties of establishing new settlements.…
View More Australia Philately: 1989 The Pastoral Era (Pre-stamped Envelopes) – 39c Administrators in the Pastoral Era