Today, the day after Memorial Day, the #stampoftheday offering consists of two stamps from 1937, honoring U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy. The last in a series of ten stamps honoring America’s military heroes, these were the only stamps in the series that didn’t feature notable soldiers or sailors. The […]

Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, which opened is the subject of the #stampoftheday for Monday, May 25. Held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its incorporation as a village, the exposition was organized by a non-profit corporation and held on 427 acres of newly reclaimed land along the shore of Lake Michigan, from 12th

Infrastructure is the theme for two stamps I offer #stampoftheday for Sunday, May 24, 2020. The first is a 3-cent stamp issued in 1944 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the day that Samuel F.B. Morse, who invented the telegraph, sat in the Supreme Court chamber of the Capitol and tapped out the message to

Two colonial-related offerings related to Maryland and South Carolina make up the #stampoftheday for Saturday, May 23. The first is a 3-cent stamp, issued on this day in 1949 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Annapolis, Maryland. Established by Puritan settlers who were exiled from Virginia in 1649, the location was first

Today’s #stampoftheday features Abraham Lincoln, who on May 22, 1849 received a patent for “Buoying Vessels Over Shoals,” via a system of waterproof fabric compartments that could be inflated when needed to help ships move over obstacles such as the sandbars that he knew from experience made it difficult to move cargo from Illinois down

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

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

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

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.