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
edit1869 issue | 1940 issue | 1960 issue |
1938 issue | 1940 issue | 1948 issue |
1959 issue |
Wagons
edit1949 issue | 1947 issue | 1968 issue |
1958 issue | 1947 issue | 1968 issue |
1958 issue |
Automobiles
edit1901 issue | 1952 issue | 1970 issue |
1925 issue | 1944 issue | 1902 issue |
Trains
edit1869 issue | 1901 issue |
1950 issue | 1952 issue |
1913 issue |
1913 issue | 1948 issue |
Ships
editsailboats
1920 issue | 1947 issue |
paddlewheeler steam boats
1901 issue | 1869 issue |
screw-driven steam ships
1901 issue | 1901 issue |
steam turbine oil burning ships
1946 issue | 1957 issue |
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]
1869 issue | 1940 issue | 1960 issue |
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]
1929 issue | 1967 issue |
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.
1947 issue | 1977 issue |
Aircraft
editearly flight
1928 issue | 1928 issue | 1930 issue |
early and turbo props
1941 issue | 1976 issue | 1940s issue |
jets
1953 issue | 1962 issue | issue |
Space
edit1962 issue | 1963 issue | 1969 issue |
1968 issue | 1975 issue |
- ^ 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.