The National Calendar, and Annals of the United States

US Post Office, 1789 to 1901

The National Calendar, and Annals of the United States

Don Heller, 13 September 2023

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Peter Force, The National Calendar, and Annals of the United States, Washington : various publishers, 1820-1836.

Wikipedia, Peter Force
Library of Congress, Peter Force Library, Peter Force Library

National Calendar; containing a list of all the officers and agents, civil, military, and naval, of the United States; broadside advertisement by Peter Force, April 1831, https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.19401000/

Titles

1820, A National Calendar for 1820
1821, The National Calendar, for MDCCCXXI. Vol. II.
1822-1824, The National Calendar, and Annals of the United States; for <year>. Vol. <number>.
1828-1831, The National Calendar, for <year>. Vol. <number>.
1832-1836, The National Calendar, and Annals of the United States; for <year>. Vol. <number>.

Printers and Publishers

1820-1824, Davis & Force
1828-1833, Peter Force
1834-1836, Pishey Thompson and Franck Taylor

Subject index, related to the Post Office

Postmaster General's Annual Report, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836
- summarized in the President's Message, 1824, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836
General Post Office (organization of the Post Office Dept.), 1820, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836
- addenda, 1835
Rates of postage, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836
Franking privilege, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836
List of post offices, clerks in post offices, etc., 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1834, 1836
List of mail contractors, 1834, 1836
Regulations, 1836
Negotiations with the railroads, 1836
List of Postmasters General since 1789, 1822, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1832, 1835
Post Office Establishment, postage received, number of post offices, etc., since 1789, 1824, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1833
Membership of House and Senate committees on the Post Office and Post Roads, in each volume, but omitted here

Library abbreviations

KBNL = Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Nederland, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague
ÖNB = Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Austrian National Library, Vienna
Boston PL = Boston Public Library, John Adams Library, or ex-John Quincy Adams

volume	year	links	Post Office
1	1820	https://books.google.com/books?id=iq8BAAAAYAAJ [Harvard] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1820forc [Boston PL] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1820forc2 [Boston PL]	p. 106, 173-174
2	1821	https://books.google.com/books?id=bE1TAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=BhAzAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=omU9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://books.google.com/books?id=nDtUAAAAcAAJ [KBNL] https://books.google.com/books?id=tKoBAAAAYAAJ [Harvard] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1821forc [Boston PL]	p. 213-214
3	1822	https://books.google.com/books?id=ow8zAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=xWU9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://books.google.com/books?id=1a8BAAAAYAAJ [Harvard] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1822forc [Boston PL] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1822forc2 [Boston PL]	p. 175, 200-201
4	1823	https://books.google.com/books?id=kU1TAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=sw4zAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=oztUAAAAcAAJ [KBNL] https://books.google.com/books?id=BWY9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton]	p. 258-259
5	1824	https://books.google.com/books?id=2A0zAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=001TAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=sjtUAAAAcAAJ [KBNL] https://books.google.com/books?id=JmY9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1824forc [Boston PL] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1824forc2 [Boston PL]	p. 188-189, 209-213
6	1828	https://books.google.com/books?id=7E1TAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=Hw0zAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=U2Y9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton]	p. 85, 259-260, 280-283
7	1829	https://books.google.com/books?id=BU5TAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=pQwzAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=0jtUAAAAcAAJ [KBNL] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1829forc [Boston PL]	p. 31-32, 140-165, 234, 259-260
8	1830	https://books.google.com/books?id=iGY9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://books.google.com/books?id=Pk5TAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB]	p. 68-76, 227-251, 30-33
9	1831	https://books.google.com/books?id=YE5TAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=JQwzAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=xWY9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://books.google.com/books?id=7TtUAAAAcAAJ [KBNL]	p. 61-70, 193-215, 328-330
10	1832	https://books.google.com/books?id=F2c9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://books.google.com/books?id=CUxTAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=OQszAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1832forc [Boston PL]	p. 137-144, 27-28, *58
11	1833	https://books.google.com/books?id=Rmc9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://books.google.com/books?id=UX0FAAAAQAAJ [Oxford] https://books.google.com/books?id=_ktTAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=zgozAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=jV4wAAAAYAAJ [Harvard] https://books.google.com/books?id=EjxUAAAAcAAJ [KBNL] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1833forc [Boston PL] inscribed, Hon J.Q. Adams, from Peter Force	p. 137-140, 244-249
12	1834	https://books.google.com/books?id=5wkzAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=GkxTAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=iWc9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1834forc [Boston PL] inscribed, Hon J.Q. Adams, from P. Force	p. 27-28, 100-105, 183-204
13	1835	https://books.google.com/books?id=IuMCAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=JUxTAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=zmc9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton] https://archive.org/details/nationalcalendar1835forc [Boston PL]	p. 32-33, 112-118, 214-218, 340
14	1836	https://books.google.com/books?id=-QgzAAAAMAAJ [Michigan] https://books.google.com/books?id=QExTAAAAcAAJ [ÖNB] https://books.google.com/books?id=E2g9AAAAYAAJ [Princeton]	p. 38-40, 109-122, 207-244