CLARA MAASS FIRST DAY COVERS

First Day Covers are issue as collector's items. They are generally postmarked from the city issuing the commemorative, in this case, Belleville New Jersey, home of the Clara Maass Memorial Hospital. The hospital underwent many name changes and one move since Miss Maass graduated from what was the German Newark Hospital in 1895.

The postcard above was issued by the United States Postal Service in 1976.
[Address on all postcards have been digitally removed].

The artwork or "cachet" on the left of these covers varies and adds to the desirability of these collectibles.

Above is a first Day Cover for the Californial Statehood Centennial; but for nurses, it is an interesting collectors' item. It features a "proposed" US stamp commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the conquest of yellow fever. While Cuba dis issue such a stamp for this occasion, the United State did not.

The stamps featured on this cover are non-postal stamps issued by the Clara Maass Memorial Hospital.

Above is a 1951 First Day Cover for the Cuban stamp commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the death of Clara L Maass.

This postcard is of Lutheran Memorial School of Nursing, Lutheran Memorial Hospital, Newark New Jersey, the school from which Clara Maass graduated in 1895. At the time of her graduation it was called Christina Trefz Training School for Nurses at Newark German Hospital. The hospital was renamed Clara Maass Memorial Hospital in 1952.

All of these First Day Covers belong to Dolores Heinzmann