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

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Post horse & rider
1869 issue
 
Pony express
1940 issue
 
Pony express
1960 issue
 
Ratification messengers
1938 issue
 
Coronado's expedition
1940 issue
 
Rough Riders
1948 issue
 
Nevada centennial
1959 issue

Wagons

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Red River cart
1949 issue
 
Conestoga wagon
1947 issue
 
Buggy
1968 issue
 
Stage coach
1958 issue
 
Transmississippi wagon
1947 issue
 
Wagon train guard
1968 issue
 
Stage coach
1958 issue

Automobiles

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Electric automobile
1901 issue
 
A.A.A. 50th anniversary
1952 issue
 
Model-A Ford
1970 issue
 
special delivery truck
1925 issue
 
special delivery motor cycle
1944 issue
 
special delivery bicycle
1902 issue

Trains

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Locomotive engine
1869 issue
 
Empire State express
1901 issue
 
Railroad engineers
1950 issue
 
B&O Railroad
1952 issue
 
Parcel post mail train
1913 issue
 
Railroad Post Office clerk
1913 issue
 
Railroad bridge at Niagara
1948 issue

Ships

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sailboats

 
Mayflower
1920 issue
 
U.S.S. Constitution
1947 issue

paddlewheeler steam boats

 
Hudson-Fulton, s.b. Clermont
1901 issue
 
Steam ship Adriatic
1869 issue

screw-driven steam ships

 
Fast Lake, s.s. City of Alpena
1901 issue
 
Fast Ocean, s.s. St. Paul
1901 issue

steam turbine oil burning ships

 
U.S. Merchant Marine
1946 issue
 
Naval Review "U.S.S. Forrestal"
1957 issue

Bridges and locks

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The 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]

 
r.r. Bridge at Niagara
1869 issue
 
Canal at Sault de St. Marie
1940 issue
 
Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal
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]

 
Ohio River Canal Lock #5
1929 issue
 
Erie Canal
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.

 
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
1947 issue
 
Peace Bridge at Buffalo
1977 issue

Aircraft

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early flight

 
Wright flyer
1928 issue
 
Monoplane 1928
1928 issue
 
Graf Zeppelin
1930 issue

early and turbo props

 
commercial aircraft
1941 issue
 
commercial aviation
1976 issue
 
25-cent airmail
1940s issue

jets

 
commercial aircraft
1953 issue
 
Jet airliner over Capitol
1962 issue
 
Jet aircraft
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Space

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Project Mercury
1962 issue
 
Robert H. Goddard
1963 issue
 
First man on the moon
1969 issue
 
Space walk
1968 issue
 
Robert H. Goddard
1975 issue
  1. ^ Haimann, Alexander T., “2-cent Panama Canal”, Arago: people, postage & the post, National Postal Museum online. Viewed March 26, 2014.
  2. ^ Trotter, Gordon T., “Ohio River Canalization Issue”, Arago: people, postage & the post, National Postal Museum online. Viewed March 27, 2014.
  3. ^ “Erie Canal Issue”, Arago: people, postage & the post. National Postal Museum online. Viewed March 29, 2014.
  4. ^ Juell, Rod. “25-cent Boeing B377 Stratocruiser”, Arago: people, postage & the post online, National Postal Museum. Viewed April 16, 2014.