U.N. Skyline
The stamp at the top of this album page is a photograph of the United Nations headquarters in New York, located on the East River side of mid-town Manhattan. It’s located on about eighteen acres of land donated to the U.N. by the Rockefeller family, a wealthy oil baron family of the U.S. The project to design and contruct the complex of buildings began in 1947.
The U.S. President, Harry Truman with the approval U.S. Congress provided the initial financing of the contruction. By 1950, the main building, the Secretariat was opened for use, although not all offices were finished or furnished. The U.N. headquarters was finished completely in October of 1952. There was still more to do, though. For instance, they wanted a library with nearly a half-million books – books in all known languages. The Dag Hammarskjöld Library Building was built and completed in November 1961 – when I was born.
Note
The two stamps at the end of the second row are meant to bring attention to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the U.N. World Weather Watch Programme. You can read more about it on the Weather Watch album page.
On the third row are two stamps meant to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the opening of the U.N. headquarters in Vienna, Austria. See the first page, the Donaupark page of the Vienna album.
The single stamp on the bottom row is to commemorate the U.N. Peacekeeping being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. See the Nobel Prizes album page for more information on this.
There are other stamps on this page, like the two for the World Bank, but I don’t have anything written on them. I need to add them.
Contains 8 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
549 |
45c (mar 1989) |
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✓ |
546 |
25c (jan 1989) |
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✓ |
547 |
45c (jan 1989) |
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✓ |
550 |
25c (apr 1989) |
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✓ |
551 |
36c (apr 1989) |
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✓ |
552 |
25c (aug 1989) |
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✓ |
553 |
90c (aug 1989) |
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✓ |
548 |
Nobel Peace Prize |
25c (mar 1989) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
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