Everything’s a Story
Revisit some of the most important books you’ve ever read at the Slusser Library’s display of children’s literature on postage stamps.
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Holiday Gifts
For beginners: Stamp collecting can be a fun and inexpensive hobby, so why not start someone’s philatelic adventures with our Stamp Collecting Starter Kit & the book Stamp It! Normally $15 and $10 each, respectively, if purchased together, it’s $20. The kit will contain stamps personalized for the recipient! To learn more about what’s in
October: stamp collecting month
Our pop-up exhibit, “Tiny Windows to a Great, big World” at the Nanini branch of the Pima County Public Library celebrates the world of stamps during the month of October, stamp collecting month. The exhibit features the most popular and accessible way to collect stamps: by topic. If you like cats, you can collect cat
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Join us at the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum!
We’re helping the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum celebrate Owney, the railway mail dog. Please join us there on Saturday, September 8th. Click on the image below for a pdf of the flyer. Hope to see you there!
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Bienvenidos a la casa con la bonita puerta roja!
Congratulations, Serena Hsu, grand prize winner of our 11th annual Tucson Birthday Stamp Design Contest!
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Prospectors and Postmen
Most prospectors didn’t “strike it rich,” and some turned to other industries that supported others’ mining efforts. Camps and towns grew and spread out. Mercantile stores, saloons, restaurants, churches, and schools were established as the population grew. The most important of these industries, and which all the others were dependent on, was mail delivery. “Prospectors
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Letters to Santa
Kids from K-12th are encouraged to drop by with their parents to write Letters to Santa or create holiday cards for those they love. All supplies needed are in our Slusser Library here. These are available Monday – Friday starting December 1st – 22nd – 10am to 2 pm. If you want to mail the
Celebrating Tucson’s 242nd Birthday!
The drawings of fifteen children, five from each age group, were selected from nearly one-hundred entries as the top designs of our tenth-annual Tucson Birthday Stamp Design Contest. The top five winners from three age groups were given awards and prizes today at the ceremony. Every student was given a Bookmans gift certificate (donated by
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What’s all the buzz about?
The Slusser Library joins in the celebration of the USPS’s August 3, 2017 stamp issue, “Protect the Pollinators” with an exhibit featuring philatelic bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, bats, and moths. Pollinators are responsible for one-third of our food and drink and $20 BILLION (with a BEE) in products annually in the United States. We hope you’ll be able
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Tanvi Narendran wins 2017 contest
Congratulations to winner Tanvi Narendran, age 13, an 8th grader who attends St. Michael’s school. She is our 2017 Grand Prize Winner of the 10th Annual Tucson Birthday Stamp Design Contest. Tucson Mayor Rothschild helped to unveil the stamp and present Tanvi with her prizes, including an official Tucson coin usually reserved for diplomats. The
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