User:TheVirginiaHistorian/sandbox/U.S. trains on stamps
U.S. transportation on stamps have been a recurring theme throughout U.S. postage stamp history.
Horses
editWagons
editAutomobiles
editTrains
editShips
editsailboats
paddlewheeler steam boats
screw-driven steam ships
steam turbine oil burning ships
Bridges and locks
editThe Panama Canal is represented by the Pedro Miguel Locks in the 2-cent Panama-Pacific Exposition issue. An estimated 500 million of these stamps were printed and issued to the public in a first release in 1913 with perforations 12, and a second in 1914 in perforations 10.[1]
The canalization of the Ohio River was commemorated with a 2-cent stamp on October 19, 1929. The project's slogan, "Nine feet, Pittsburgh to Cairo," indicated the immensity of the work. The stamp vignette featues Lock number 5 and dam on the Monongahela River.[2]
The Erie Canal was commemorated with a 5-cent stamp 150th anniversary of the ground breaking on July 4, 1967. The Erie Canal was the engineering marvel of its day providing low-cost transportation that opened the Midwest to commerce and settlers and made New York City a great port. The canal was forty feet wide, four feet deep, and stretched 363 miles from the Hudson River, just north of Troy, westward to Buffalo. Eighty-three locks lifted boats 568 feet, the difference in altitude between the Hudson and Lake Erie.[3]
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was featured on a 25-cent airmail stamp on July 30, 1947. A Boeing B377 Stratocruiser was pictured in flight over the bridge with the city skyline in the background.[4]
The Buffalo, New York to Fort Erie, Canada bridge, the "Peace Bridge" was commemorated on a 13-cent stamp in 1977.
Aircraft
editearly flight
early and turbo props
jets
Space
edit- ^ Haimann, Alexander T., “2-cent Panama Canal”, Arago: people, postage & the post, National Postal Museum online. Viewed March 26, 2014.
- ^ Trotter, Gordon T., “Ohio River Canalization Issue”, Arago: people, postage & the post, National Postal Museum online. Viewed March 27, 2014.
- ^ “Erie Canal Issue”, Arago: people, postage & the post. National Postal Museum online. Viewed March 29, 2014.
- ^ Juell, Rod. “25-cent Boeing B377 Stratocruiser”, Arago: people, postage & the post online, National Postal Museum. Viewed April 16, 2014.