Day 2 of the first-day cover project is not off to a good start because I can't find a cover for April 19. So instead here's one from April 17, 1958, which was my father's 33rd birthday (he would have been 95 last Friday). It's the ever popular 3-cent "Compliment to the Brussels Universal and …
Topic: Culture & Society
Exploring Americana artifacts and other obscure areas of US history
Day 3 of my my #stampoftheday project brings us 1959's 8-cent stamp honoring the XVIIth Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce. And a bonus of 4 different 1950 stamps honoring the National Capital Sesquicentennial with stamps of the White House, the Supreme Court building, the Capital, and the statue of Columbia on top of …
Today's first-day cover is especially timely. It's the April 24, 1953 first-day cover issued by the UN, honoring the UN's work for the protection of refugees. In the UN's first two decades, many people, including my father, collecting their stamps, reflecting the high hopes and high opinion many people had for the UN. And this …
The #stampoftheday for Sunday, April 26, is the 10-cent 1940 stamp honoring Jane Addams was a social reformer who was the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. She is best known for being the founder of Hull House, which offered social, educational, and cultural opportunities to the large immigrant population of Chicago and …
And now for something completely different! The #stampoftheday for April 29 is 1950's 3-cent stamp commemorating the role of railroad engineers in building America. The stamp pictures folk hero John Luther "Casey" Jones, who was killed in a train wreck near Vaughn, Mississippi. The stamp was issued in Jackson, Mississippi, on the 50th anniversary of …
Several possible options today for #stampoftheday but I'm going to go with two related to the 1939 New York World's Fair, which opened on April 30, 1939 on over 1,200 acres of land at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. (Apologies for such a long post but I'm having fun here...) Over 200,000 people attended the fair's opening day, …
The thankfully short #stampoftheday for today is the 6-cent airmail envelope issued as part of the 1956 FIPEX, the giant stamp expo held in the then-new NYC Coliseum from April 28 to May 6. For a nice account of that event see http://www.ny2016.org/images/history/05_1956fipex.pdf.
The #stampoftheday for is a "souvenir sheet" consisting of four 3-cent stamps issued (actually re-issued) in conjunction with the Third International Philatelic Exhibition, held in New York City in May 1936. The stamps commemorate the Connecticut Tercentenary, the California Pacific Exposition, the Michigan Centennial, and the Texas Centennial. The first celebrated the 300th anniversary of the …
The main #stampoftheday for May 5 is the 3-cent 1956 stamp issued to emphasize the importance of wildlife conservation in America. The first of three stamps with a similar theme, it showcases wild turkeys and was issued at the convention of the Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. As many people know, …