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 …
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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 to …
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 idea for …
I was struggling to find a #stampoftheday for today, wondering if I might finally have hit a dead end when I stumbled on an appropriate stamp not in my father's US albums but instead in the two albums of UN stamps, which included an airmail stamp and air mail postcard both released on May 27, …
The #stampoftheday for May 28 is a 1-cent Ulysses S. Grant postal card postmarked May 28 1892. (Yes, in addition to U.S., U.N., and Israeli stamps and first-day covers, as well as postage meter cancellations, my father also had postcards, some old, some from the mid-19th century, in his collection. In fact I've been using …
The tallest stamp the Post Office had ever issued when it was released on May 27, 1926 is today's #stampoftheday. The stamp features John Ericsson, the self-taught Swedish-born inventor who not only designed the Monitor, the iron-clad Union ship that played a decisive role in the Civil War, but also made seminal improvements in the design …
A bizarre and troubling stamp honoring the group behind many controversial monuments honoring the leaders of the Confederacy is today's #stampoftheday. Issued in 1951, the 3-cent stamp commemorates the final reunion of last gathering of the United Confederate Veterans - that is the last surviving soldiers who fought to preserve slavery in the United States. Not …
Today brings yet another stamp marking an historic milestone that relates (in less-than-visible -ways) to this week's horrific events. In this case it's a 3-cent stamp issued on May 31, 1954 to mark the 100-year anniversary of the creation of the Kansas Territory. Acquired by the US in 1903 as part of the Louisiana Purchase, the …
Kentucky and Alaska are the subjects for today's #stampoftheday. The first is a 3-cent stamp issued on June 1, 1942 to mark the 150th anniversary of Kentucky, which had been part of Virginia, becoming America's 15th state on June 1, 1792. Kentucky joined the nation as a slave state but because its land didn't lend itself …