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Beazell Type Photographic Covers
By 1931 Robert Beazell had moved from Cincinnati to the Los Angeles area. There, he and Crosby met and collaborated on numerous ship covers and some first day covers as well utilizing Beazell's photographic style covers. Generally Crosby supplied the photos and Beazell then produced the covers. The first cover shown below illustrates this work. It is for the Yorktown issue and includes not only the photograph, but an additional rubber-stamp applied by Crosby to honor President Hoover's visit.
By 1932 Beazell had relocated back to Cincinnati and Crosby then independently created photographic covers. Several of those covers for the George Washington Bicentennial Issue are illustrated below. Since the photos are not directly related to the individual stamps, they can all be found with various stamps. Crosby's photographic covers of this era can generally be distinguised from Beazell's because the titles of Crosby's covers are generally in ALL CAPS while Beazell's are in Initial Caps. Also the photographs on most of Crosby's covers have turned brownish with age while Beazell's have remained black. And Crosby's photographs are of differing size and shape while Beazell's are of uniform size and shape.
Crosby continued to produce these kind of photographic covers with a set for the National Park Series....but I have never yet seen examples of that set.
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Scott #703-34m
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Scott #704/15-26r
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Scott #704/15-26t
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Scott #704/15-26v
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Scott #704/15-26w
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Scott #704/15-26x
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Scott #704/15-26aa
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Scott #704/15-26bb variety
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