Celebrate the Century is the name of a series of postage stamps made by the United States Postal Service that display images recalling important events in the 20th century in the United States. These ten sheets are published, with each sheet describing the events of a decade of the 20th century, from the 1900s to the 1990s. Fifteen stamps implanted into each sheet. For the first eight sheets (1900s to 1970s) of fifteen stamps, one stamp of each sheet was printed using the intaglio process, while the remaining fourteen were offset printed together with the rest of the sheet. All bedspreads are printed by Ashton-Potter USA printing company.
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Format
These embellished souvenir sheets have an unusually large format of 7 ½ "x9" (190mmx229mm). The upper left corner represents the decade in numerical format, the entire background of the sheet devotes a certain event of the decade (for example the Wright brothers standing next to their Flyer II on the 1900s sheet.)
Fifteen stamps are printed at an angle of 8 Â °, horizontal perforations ran from stamps to the edge of the sheet. The stamps are arranged on top of the sheets in four rows, and are nested in a unique arrangement for each sheet. An area devoted to decades of description as described by the postage on it. The description of each cap is printed on the side attached to the sheet, behind each cap.
The words Art, Sports, Historical Events run on the left edge, Technology, Entertainment, Science run at the top edge, Political Figure, Lifestyle i> on the right edge of the sheet.
The stamps for the first five sheets are selected by the Stamp Advisory Committee and those for the remaining five sheets are selected by a national poll.
Maps Celebrate the Century
CTC Express
The CTC caps program was published through an award-winning railway museum tour, named Celebrate the Century Express, commissioned by the USPS consisting of a locomotive and three cars. The train traveled for eighteen months from March 11, 1999 to the fall of 19 November 2000 across the continent to showcase letters to the US public. During its journey, the journey has crossed 100 cities in 42 states and has more than 111,000 visitors including 6,000 children. CTC Express consists of the Amtrak P42 Genesis diesel locomotive, an exhibition car featuring a US warning multimedia display stamp, a restored Railway Mail Service car, a historic railway business car and a luggage car. CTC Express received the "Design for Transportation National Awards 2000" from the US Department of Transportation, and "TRANNY Award of Excellence" from the Transport Marketing and Communications Association. On May 25, 2000, the US Congress praised the USPS for receiving this award.
CTC Education Series
USPS with the US Department of Education and ten prominent K-12 education associations, initiated educational programs involving more than 300,000 students across the US in a comprehensive classroom curriculum program that will take students on field trips through the 20th century decade.
The program kit was created for students from grades 3 to 6, and is available to teachers for free. Each kit includes teacher guides, student activity magazines, computer activities, internet-connected sites, multimedia classroom visuals, school voting for students and home projects for children for parental participation. In a survey conducted in 1999 of 20,000 educators, it was revealed that the program was a huge success.
Sheet
1900s
Title: Dawn of the Twentieth Century .
Issue Date: February 3, 1998. Denomination: 32 Â ¢
No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: Ford Model T; President Theodore Roosevelt; Movie Great Train Robbery ; Crayola crayon; St. Louis World's Fair
- Second line: Food and Drug Act; Wright Flyer; Ashcan School
- Third line: Ellis Island; John Muir
- Fourth line: Teddy bear; W. E. B. Du Bois; The Gibson Girl; 1903 World Series; Robie House
Background picture: The Wright brothers stand next to their Flyer II, near Dayton, Ohio Intaglio stamps: The Gibson Girl created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson.
Inspired by the bear teddy bear on this sheet, the USPS in 2002 issued a set of four teddy bear stamps.
1910s
Title: America Looks Beyond Borders .
Issue date: February 3, 1998.
Denomination: 32 Â ¢
No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First row: Charlie Chaplin; Central government reserve system; George Washington Carver
- Second line: Firearms 1913; Telephone Line Cross the continent; Panama Canal
- 3rd line: Jim Thorpe; Grand Canyon; I want you; Boy Scouts of America; President Woodrow Wilson;
- Line 4: The first crossword; Jack Dempsey; Set Erector; Reform of Child Labor
Background picture: Boy Scouts participated in the patriotic "Wake Up America" ​​rally at Fifth Avenue, New York City Intaglio stamps: Panama Canal.
Cap commemorate Carver is the second issued by the US Postal Service, the first stamp was issued in 1948.
1920s
Title: The Roaring Twenties .
Issue date: May 28, 1998.
Denomination: 32 Â ¢
No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: Babe Ruth; Novel: The Great Gatsby; Ban; Train toys; Women's suffrage
- Second line: Emily Post; Margaret Mead; John Held, Jr.; Radio; Chrysler Building
- Third line: Jazz; Four Notre Dame Horsemen; Charles Lindbergh
- The fourth line: Automat; Black Thursday
Background: Members of the dance group staging come from Charleston on the California coast during a break in filming in 1926.
Intaglio stamps: Charles Lindbergh.
1930s
Title: Depression, Dust Bowl, and New Deal .
Issue date: October 9, 1998.
Denomination: 32 Â ¢
No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Empire State Building; Life Magazine; Eleanor Roosevelt; New Offer Program
- Second line: Superman; Home Comfort; movies: Snow White ; novel: Gone with the Wind ; Jesse Owens
- Third line: 20th Century Limited; Golden Gate Bridge; Florence Owens Thompson
- Line 4: Bobby Jones; Monopoly
Background picture: A farmer and two sons fled from a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma in April 1936. Site Intaglio stamps: Empire State Building
The Gone with the Wind stamp is the second issued by the USPS, first published on June 30, 1930, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the sale of the book with a 1 Â ¢ stamp featuring writer Margaret Mitchell. Photo of Florence Owens Thompson, taken by photographer Dorothea Lange and entitled Migrant Mother (1936), is an iconic image of the Great Depression.
1940s
Title: World War II Changing America .
Issue date: February 18, 1999.
Denomination: 33 Â ¢ | No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: World War II; Antibiotics; Jackie Robinson
- Second line: President Harry S. Truman; Women support the war effort; Television
- 3rd line: Jitterbug; Jackson Pollock; G. I. Bill; Great band; United Nations
- Line 4: Baby boom; Slinky; A Streetcar Named Desire; Citizen Kane
Background image: A US Marines landing party stormed the beach in Saipan, a Japanese fortress in the Mariana Islands in 1944. Intaglio stamps: United Nations.
1950s
Title: Family Fun, Suburbia, and Nuclear Threats .
Issue date: May 26, 1999.
Denomination: 33 Â ¢ | No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: Polio vaccine; Teen Mode; 1951 National League; Explorer I; Korean War
- Second line: Desegregation of public schools; Tail of car; Cat in Hat
- Third row: Drive-in Theater; New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers 1949 - 1956
- The fourth line: Rocky Marciano; I Love Lucy; Rock and roll; Daytona 500; 3-D movie
Background: Family in front of the television set Intaglio stamps: Polio vaccine.
The cap on Lucille Ball is the first to commemorate the actress. This was soon followed by another stamp on August 7, 2001 which was part of the Hollywood Legend series.
1960s
Title: The Sixties Rebellious and Man on the Moon .
Issue date: September 17, 1999.
Denomination: 33 Â ¢ | No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: Martin Luther King; Woodstock Music and Art Fair; Landing on the moon; Green Bay Packers; Star Trek
- Second line: Peace Corps; Vietnam War; Ford Mustang; Barbie; Integrated circuit
- Third line: Laser; AFL-NFL; Peace symbol
- Line 4: Roger Maris; The Beatles
Background picture: Buzz Astronaut Aldrin prepares seismic equipment to record lunar tremor Intaglio stamps: lunar moon foot prints in Aldrin.
1970s
Title: Bicentennial, Watergate, and Earth Day .
Issue date: November 18, 1999.
Denomination: 33 Â ¢ | No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: Earth Day; All in the family; Sesame Street
- Line 2: Disco; Pittsburgh Steelers; United States Bicentennial
- Third line: Secretariat - Horse of the Year; Video tape recorder, Pioneer 10; Women's Rights Movement by UNIFEM; 1970's Mode
- Line 4: ABC Night Soccer on ABC; Smiley face; Boeing 747; Medical imaging
Background image: The ship gathered in New York Harbor under the Statue of Liberty to take part in the Bicentennial celebration, July 4, 1976, marking the 200th anniversary of the United States.
Intaglio stamps: video cassette recorder.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the Boeing 747 stamp by the USPS, Boeing in 1999 launched a 70 foot square replica of the Boeing 747 cap images mounted on the doors of their Everett plant.
1980s
Title: Spacecraft Launched, Berlin Wall Falls .
Issue date: January 12, 2000.
Denomination: 33 Â ¢ | No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: Space shuttle; The music cat Andrew Lloyd Webber; San Francisco 49ers; Iran hostage crisis; Figure skating
- Second line: Cable TV; Vietnam Veterans Memorial Monument; CD; Cabbage Patch Kids; The Cosby Show
- Third line: The fall of the Berlin Wall; Video games; E.T. Extra-Terrestrial
- Fourth line: Personal computer; Hip hop culture
Background image: The Columbia shuttle was launched June 27, 1982 on its fourth mission Intaglio stamps: No one is present.
Vietnam Veteran Warning Stamp is the second stamp to commemorate the Vietnam War, first issued in the 1960s.
1990s
Title: At the End of the Decade, Cold War Ends, Economic Boom .
Issue date: May 2, 2000.
Denomination: 33 Â ¢ | No stamps in the sheet: 15
Stamps:
- First line: Major League Baseball; Gulf War; Seinfeld
- Second line: Extreme sports; Improve education; Computer graphics
- Third line: Peregrine's perfume is removed from the list of endangered species; John Glenn goes back to the sky; 30th Anniversary of the Special Olympics; Virtual reality; Jurassic Park
- Line 4: Titanic Movie ; Sports utility vehicles; World Wide Web; Mobile
Background image: The currency image is superimposed by an improved economic chart.
Intaglio stamps: No one is present.
The Back to Space cap commemorates the former astronaut and then returns Senator John Glenn into space after a period of 36 years, describing the Discovery Space Shuttle, and Glenn's Mercury Friendship 7 space craft side by side in space.
See also
- Canada Put the millennium stamp
- The millennium stamp
- Nature of America
References
External links
- Celebrate the Century - US seal sheets
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