Beginning in the first half of the Nineteenth Century, various commercial companies in the United States issued stamps to indicate prepayment of the cost of sending a telegram over their network or to indicate some other sort of form of payment, such as collection on receipt.

This site illustrates an intermediate collection of these stamps. That is, some less common items are included, but it is by no means close to completion.

The links in the following list will lead to pages containing the stamps associated with each company. When the site is fully coded, clicking on any stamp on a page will show it in larger size and provide some information about it.

The following companies are represented:

American Rapid Telegraph Company
Atlantic Telegraph Company
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company
California State Telegraph Company
Commercial Union Telegraph Company
Connecticut River Telegraph Company
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America
Mutual Union Telegraph Company
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York City and Suburban Printing Telegraph Company
North American Telegraph Company
Northern Mutual Telegraph Company
Northern New York Telegraph Company
Pacific Mutual Telegraph Company
Pacific Postal Telegraph - Cable Company
Postal Telegraph Company
The Telepost Company
United Fruit Company Wireless Service
United States Telegraph - Cable - Radio Carriers
United Wireless Telegraph Company
Western Union Telegraph Company

There currently are no pages for the following companies, all of which are know to have issued stamps or had them produced as essays:

American District Telegraph Company
American Telegraph Typewriter Commpany
Colusa, Lake & Mendocino Telegraph Company
Continental Telegraph Company
Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad
Tropical Radio Telegraph Company

Comments or questions can be directed to Bob Hohertz.