Smithsonian National Postal Museum curators and staff have written many articles about objects or collections within the National Philatelic Collection. Their work has appeared in numerous publications, including American Philatelist, Collectors Club Philatelist, Confederate Philatelist, Linn’s Stamp News, London Philatelist, Philatelic Gazette, Smithsonian, and U.S. Specialist. The museum website, http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu, includes exhibition stories and images, finding guides, Object of the Month stories, and blog posts. The museum online collection database site, http://www.arago.si.edu, includes individual object narratives as well as Featured Collection stories.
Collins, Herbert R. “The National Philatelic Collection: A Century of Collecting, 1886—1986.” American Philatelist 100, no. 5 (1986): 430–40.
Ganz, Cheryl R. Pacific Exchange: China & U.S. Mail. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2014.
Ganz, Cheryl R., and Daniel A. Piazza. Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2009.
———. Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2012.
John, Richard R. Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Klug, Janet. Guide to Stamp Collecting. New York: Collins, 2008.
Lera, Thomas, and Leon Finik. The G. H. Kaestlin Collection of Imperial Russian and Zemstov Stamps. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2012.
Piazza, Daniel A. “Collecting History: 125 Years of the National Philatelic Collection.” Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Last modified March 13, 2014 http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/collectinghistory/index.html.
Rivinus, E[dward] F. “Spencer Fullerton Baird: The Collector of Collectors.” American Philatelist 103, no. 11 (1989): 1061–5.
Scheele, Carl H. “A New Home for the Smithsonian’s Philatelic and Postal History Collections.” In The Congress Book 1964, pp. 11–14. Washington, D.C.: American Philatelic Congress, 1964.
Smithsonian National Postal Museum. “Finding Guides.” Last modified April 16, 2014 http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/findingguides/index.html.
Trepel, Scott R. Rarity Revealed: The Benjamin K. Miller Collection. With Ken Lawrence. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2006.