Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2003-2004
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
an exhibit entitled The Life and Oeuvre of Dr. Károly Forster. We also held a memorial assembly in our auditorium. The author designed the temporary exhibition based on research for a yearbook article. She was assisted by a rich legacy collected from the Forster family, in which the documents made up the storyboard for the exhibit. The storyboard as well as the article were presented to the memorial meeting. The article reviewed the chronology of postal history as it pertained to Dr. Károly Forster. Ildikó Várkonyi Makkai: Postal packages evolving over a century The author summarises a period of about 100 years in Hungarian postal package delivery history, starting with 1867. In doing so, she focuses on preparations for an upcoming Postal Museum exhibition. The Helikon Castle Museum in Keszthely offered the museum an exhibition hall in which to present the artefacts and documents of this aspect of postal history, an area that has not been completely explored to this day. We learn that delivery of goods and packages began at the time postal delivery vehicles were introduced. As horse-drawn coaches developed over the centuries and as postal services began taking advantage of additional transport facilities such as ocean-going vessels, the railway, the automobile, and finally, aircraft, it took on an increasing role in package delivery and trade. The article focuses on the package deliveries of the Royal Hungarian Post Office, which became an independent entity in 1867, covering its first century of operations using resources in the Postal Museum collections. Gabriella Nikodém: The Poppovits Collection Back on September 25, 1916, the department of the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Trade and Trade Counsellor Mirkó Frigyes Poppovits concluded a barter agreement. The outcome was that a prize collection of classic Hungarian stamps, called the Poppovits collection, became the property of the post office and it formed the backbone of a new museum. The Stamp Museum opened in 1930. In it were and are documents covering two ventures (in 1916 and 1918) that tell us the story behind this barter, though many of the papers are damaged and some are illegible. The author focuses on data found in documents once filed as confidential for which the period of confidentiality has expired, making them accessible. They tell us that with these two transactions the post office received an exceptionally valuable and thoroughly processed museum collection, one which accurately reflected the stamps issued until that time. Mrs. János Solymosi: The basis for the Stamp Museum’s foreign collection When preparing for the 75th anniversary celebration of the Stamp Museum originally established by the Royal Hungarian Post Office, we need to remember the people who set the foundations for the museum’s foreign collection, and those who have recently helped to increase it. The author tells us that a Universal Postal Association was established in 1874. That same year it suggested that all members - 22 at the time - send one another 333
