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The first stamps of the Venezuela were issued on 1 January 1859. [ 1] Venezuela supported its territorial claim in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895 by printing an 1896 postage stamp with a map showing Guyana up to the east bank of the Essequibo River as "Guayana Venezolana". Guyana years later responded with a series of overprints “ESSEQUIBO IS ...
The twenty-story, Spanish Renaissance-style Hotel Manger opened on November 15, 1926. [2] At the time, the 2,250-room Manger was the largest hotel in the Times Square area, and the third largest in Manhattan. [3] The development cost more than $10 million (equivalent to more than $172 million in 2023), an enormous amount of money at the time.
Estimated value. $500-$11,000 [ 1] The New York Postmaster's Provisional is, as its designation implies, a postage stamp provided by the New York Post Office to facilitate the prepayment of mail at a time when the United States had not yet issued postage stamps for national use. Placed on sale on July 14, 1845, this was the nation's first ...
A 1922 stamp of La Aguera. In June 1920, Spain issued postage stamps of its existing colony Río de Oro overprinted "LA AGÜERA", and followed those up in 1922 with a series portraying King Alfonso XIII and inscribed "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL / LA AGÜERA". [1] These were superseded in 1924 by stamps of Spanish Sahara, as La Güera was incorporated to ...
The Martinique New York on Broadway, Curio Collection by Hilton is a 532-room hotel at 53 West 32nd Street (also known as 1260-1266 Broadway) [4] in Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and built by William R. H. Martin, who headed the Rogers Peet business, in a French Renaissance style.
The Pierre is a luxury hotel located at 2 East 61st Street, at the intersection of that street with Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City, facing Central Park. Designed by Schultze & Weaver, the hotel opened in 1930 with 100+ employees, now with over a thousand. In 2005, the hotel was acquired by Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces of India.
James A. Farley Post Office. New York The massive 1912 Beaux Arts treasure in Manhattan was the largest post office in the country for years, a staggering two-block icon of nearly 400,000 square feet.
Alfred B. Mullett. The City Hall Post Office and Courthouse was designed by architect Alfred B. Mullett for a triangular site in New York City along Broadway in Civic Center, Lower Manhattan, in City Hall Park south of New York City Hall. The Second Empire style building, erected between 1869 and 1880, was not well received.