The #stampoftheday for May 21 is a 3-cent stamp issued on May 21, 1955 honoring America’s Armed Forces reserve units. The reserves were first established in 1908 as a way to ensure that there would be medical officers available in times of war or other national emergencies. In the National Defense Act of 1920, Congress […]
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The #stampoftheday for May 20, is a 10-cent stamp, issued in 1927, to honor Charles Lindbergh’s famed trans-Atlantic flight which started in New York City on May 20, 1927. The stamp, which was issued in June 1927 (and reissued in May 1928), was the first U.S. stamp to honor a living person. The Post Office
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A postcard sent by one of my mother’s friends to my father postmarked May 19, 1944, is today’s #stampoftheday. I found it among the cancelled envelopes in my dad’s collection – many of them the envelopes from letters he sent to my mom and his parents when he was in training and then in Europe
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The #stampoftheday offerings for today are a 2- and a 5-cent stamps issued on May 18, 1925 that marked two important events in the history of “Norse-Americans.” The 2-cent stamp commemorating the arrival of the first Norwegian immigrants in America, who arrived in New York on October 9, 1825, aboard the ship Restaurationen. After they
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Today’s #stampoftheday is a 3-cent stamp from 1947 that commemorates America’s first postage stamp, which was issued in 1847. The 1947 stamp features pictures of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (who nation’s first postmaster general) as well as a Pony Express rider, a steam locomotive, a 1940s locomotive, a modern steamship, and a four-motored plane.
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The country of Israel’s first stamps are today’s the #stampoftheday. Israel declared its independence on Friday, May 14, 1948. However, Israel Post, the Israeli postal operator, waited until Sunday May 16 – the day after Shabbat – to issue the country’s first stamps. Designed by Otto Wallish, a Czech graphic artist who came to Palestine
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The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) “Women in Armed Forces,” which was founded on May 15, 1942, is the focus of today’s #stampoftheday: a 3-cent stamp issued in 1952 honoring “Women in Our Armed Services.”. Before World War II, women were generally only allowed on the battlefield as nurses or as volunteers as communications specialists
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Three #stampoftheday offerings today. The first two – a 2 cent stamp featuring Andrew Jackson and a 10-cent stamp featuring Thomas Jefferson – are from a series of stamps issued in 1870 to replace an series issued in 1869 that apparently was unpopular because the stamps were too small, unattractive, and of inferior quality. The
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Two offerings for the May 13th #stampoftheday. The first is a 5-cent stamp picturing Edward McDowell that is part of the 1940 “famous Americans” series discussed in earlier posts. McDowell, who lived from 1860 to 1908, was a well-known composer, pianist, and teacher who also was Columbia University’s first professor of music and one of
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Today’s #stampoftheday took me into a whole different part of my dad’s stamp collection: a notebook full not of stamps but of postage-meter stamps, mostly from the mid 1950s, organized by state and then city. Some states, like New York, are well represented. Pages for others, like Wyoming, are blank. Here’s a cancellation for May
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