American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Cards
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U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Card FDC's
Part of the U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog
by Douglas H. Henkle, AFDCS LM #137,
henkle@pobox.com
(last updated .01-20-2023)
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This page displays First Day Covers (FDC) serviced on envelopes with the printed Return Address of the
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company (A-H SS Co.). Generally these covers are called
Corner Card First Day Covers . This steamship company, incorporated on 3-07-1899 and ending service in about 1953, has been written up in the SSHSA Journal, Steamboat Bill, and detailed on other websites, but I have not found any that document FDC's, Corner Cards, Cinderella stamps or picture postcards made specifically for this company. Except as noted by "{A}" (my personal collection), all other displayed covers and other Company related items were found on the Web.
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-- Cinderella Stamps
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Wanted: a 300 bpi / 600 pixel wide (or greater) .jpg scan of any unlisted cachet
(ALSO any cachet marked ***)
Email it to: henkle@pobox.com
Subject for this page: Doug Henkle unlisted American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC's
(an email with any other subject or with any other graphical format will be ignored IF it has an attachment)
U.S. Scott #nnn-nn = U.S. Scott Catalog number "#nnn".
mm-dd-yyyy = First Day of Issue.
- U.S. Scott #908, 2-12-1943 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC Corner Card --- {A}

- U.S. Scott #933, 1-30-1946 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC Corner Card --- {A}

- U.S. Scott #938, 12-29-1945 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC Corner Card --- {A}

- U.S. Scott #943, 8-10-1946 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC Corner Card --- {A}

- U.S. Scott #947, 5-17-1947 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC Corner Card --- {A} / (eBay)

- U.S. Scott #948, 5-19-1947 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC Corner Card --- {A}

- U.S. Scott #949, 6-09-1947 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC Corner Card --- {A}
All the above are the same as this.
- U.S. Scott #950, 7-24-1947 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company FDC Corner Card --- (eBay)

Post Office Dedications
And one other Philatelic use of this Corner Card which was serviced at the renaming of a West Virginia town to MacArthur, WV on 4-15-1942 in honor of General Douglas MacArthur. For about 60 other covers also canceled on that day, as well as about 20 covers canceled on 9-10-1945, the day another town was renamed to Nimitz, WV in honor of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, see the following page, also on this site:
MacArthur, WV and Nimitz, WV Post Office Dedications
- MacArthur, WV #CC2mac - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company (corner card)

Non-First Day Cover Corner Cards
- not mailed - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Card --- (eBay)

- mailed 1-16-1904 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Card --- (eBay)

- mailed 4-28-1914 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Card --- (eBay)

- mailed 4-14-1915 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Card --- (eBay)

- mailed 11-16-1929 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Card --- (eBay)

- mailed 12-16-1929 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Card --- (eBay)

- mailed 7-01-1940 - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Corner Card --- (eBay)

American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Cinderella Stamps:
I do not know when these stamps were issued, or what their purpose was for the company.
- date issued? - American-Hawaiian Steamship Company set of 16
Cinderella stamps --- (eBay)

American-Hawaiian Steamship Company -- Picture Postcards (Deltiology):
I have not seen any postally used copies of any of these postcards.
These postcards are listed in order of the Ship's name.
- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 2/20-12/04/1915 --- (eBay)
Panama-Pacific International Exposition

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, S.S. Alaskan --- (eBay)

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, S.S. Hawaiian, 11/1900 --- (eBay)

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, S.S. Honolulan (5) --- (eBay)

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, S.S. Honolulan (6) --- (eBay)

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, S.S. Honolulan (8) --- (eBay)

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, S.S. Metapan --- (eBay)

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, S.S. Missourian, 8-17-1914 --- (eBay)

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Picture Postcard, S.S. Washingtonian, 10-21-1914 --- (eBay)

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, Postal Card WW II Notice preprinted on a U.S. Scott #UX27 --- (eBay)
S.S. Arizonan and S.S. Texan suspending serice until further notice, as of 12-23-1941 [16 days after "Pearl Harbor"].

Photographs
- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company date? Photograph, Roger D. Lapham, Former Company President (1925-1947)
Photo courtesy of
Family tree of Roger LAPHAM
(12-06-1883 New York, NY - 4-16-1966 San Francisco, CA)
at -- geneastar.org

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Photographs
Display permission granted by the
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
at -- sfpl.org
Photo #1 Source: (undated)
"Group of men standing in front of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company building at Pier 28"
Photo #2 Source: (9-23-1935)
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company building at Pier 28

Miscellaneous
- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Flag
Scan courtesy of
House Flags of U.S. Shipping Companies
at -- seaflags.us

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Badges
Scans courtesy of Merchant Navy Cap Badges Gallery
at -- archive.org

- American-Hawaiian Steamship Company Routes Map Poster -- (eBay ***)
eBay seller description: 1928 American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. "The Panama Canal Line" 9" x 16" Poster
Wanted: a larger scan where all the text is readable.

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What's New on this page -- changes since 02-15-2022:
02-16-2022:
1) Deleted the S.S. Metapan picture postcard because, despite the description by the eBay dealer, we can can find no evidence this ship was ever connected with A-H. It was owned by the United Fruit Company as verified by that Company's Diamond
logo on the funnel.
2) Added #906 .
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