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 or …
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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 in …
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. …
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 docked, …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 named …