{"id":263,"date":"2016-01-23T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2016-02-08T11:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:48:39","slug":"collection-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/collection\/collection-7\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u201cTin Can Mail\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Postage stamps mounted on collector\u2019s album page<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gustafson Tonga Island Collection<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This collection features the unique postal history of the island of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niuafo%CA%BBou\">Niuafo\u02bbou<\/a>, part of the country of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tonga\">Tonga<\/a>, which was sometimes called Tin Can Island in the early twentieth century. Since the island lacked a deep water harbor, mail deliveries were dropped near the shore in metal containers. Residents retrieved their mail on small boats. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-467 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-787x1024.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx042md\" width=\"605\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-100x130.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-150x195.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-200x260.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-300x390.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-450x586.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md-600x781.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx042md.jpg 836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTin Can Mail\u201d Postage stamps mounted on collector\u2019s album page Gustafson Tonga Island Collection This collection features the unique postal history of the island of Niuafo\u02bbou, part of the country of Tonga, which was sometimes called Tin Can Island in the early twentieth century. Since the island lacked a deep water harbor, mail deliveries were <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/collection\/collection-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-263","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions\/957"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}