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			<titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Postmaster Appointments Collection
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			 <date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="1902/1919">1902-1919<?xm-replace_text {Insert inclusive date(s), eg., 1944-1995; required}?></date></titleproper>
		  
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			<publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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			<date calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="date" normal="2016">© 2016</date> 
		 
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		<creation>Finding aid encoded by Doug Lambeth.
			<date normal="2016" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">2016</date></creation>
		
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	 	<abstract encodinganalog="5203_">Collection containing certificates of postmaster appointments in towns in Washington and Pennsylvania in the early twentieth century.<?xm-replace_text {Very brief summary of collection contents 
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	 	<p>This collection contains two items:</p>
	 		
	 		<p>A certificate appointing Fred B. Goldsworthy as postmaster of Rosalia, Whitman County, Washington, dated April 4, 1919. Signed by Woodrow Wilson (note: probably a secretarial signature). </p>
	 		
	 		<p>A certificate appointing James H. Porter as postmaster of New Wilmington, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, dated April 10, 1902. Signed by Theodore Roosevelt (note: probably a secretarial signature).
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	 	<p>This collection is open and available for research use.</p>
		
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	 	<p>[item description]
	 		Postmaster Appointments Collection, 1902-1919</p>
	 		<p>Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, 
	 		Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.</p> 
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	 	<p>Megan Ockerman processed this collection in 2016.</p>
		
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			<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Postmasters -- United States -- History -- Sources<?xm-replace_text {Subject term}?></subject>
		  
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