Dix & Moller
There are two women featured on the stamps here. I think their stories are interesting and worth telling.
Dorothy Dix
Elizabeth Meriwether was an American journalist who went by the pseudonym of Dorothy Dix, the name she used for her advice column. Hers was the first such column, providing advice to readers who wrote her about problems they were having in relationships, in particular in their marriages. Living primarily in New Orleans, originally writing for the Daily Picayune she started the column in 1895. By the 1920s her column was published in nearly three-hundred newspapers, with over sixty million readers. She was the highest paid woman journalist in the world at that time.
Given her popularity, Meriwether was a major advocate for feminism and women suffrage. She praised the work that women were doing to care for their families, as well as the growth and development of their children. She also encouraged them to find work outside the home to give them more independence. She spoke at meetings and rallies with fellow suffragettes, like Susan B. Anthony.
Lillian Moller
Lillian Moller was one of the first industrial psychologist, known for her time and motion studies she conducted with her husband, Frank Gilbreth. They also studied and made recommendations about worker fatigue. After her husband died, because of discrimination against women, Moller was unable to continue working in business settings – although she did continue to write on the subject and lecture at many of the top universities. Instead, she shifted her studies to femine roles in society, and to home economics – the study of better home management.
In addiiton to the work Moller and Gilbreth did together, they had twelve children. When asked why they had so many, Gilbreth would jokingly reply, they’re cheaper by by the dozen. Two of their children co-wrote books about their life together, which were both made into movies: the first was called, `Cheaper by the Dozen with the film released in 1950, starring Myrna Loy as their mother and Clifton Webb as their father; the second was a sequel called, Belles on their Toes, with Loy in the film playing Moller, but without Webb since it’s set after the death of his character.
Note
Several of the more used face amounts of the definitives from the previous page were reissued, but with some sort of tagging. For av description of tagging, see my Garland page.
These stamps are not easy to find from dealers. I don’t know whether they’re scarce, or that they’re not popular variants (i.e., collectors don’t want them), or that most dealers don’t know how or don’t think to check if a stamp is tagged. It’s taken me over a year to find the few I have so far. I don’t like incomplete stamps and get frustrated when I can’t find them to complete the page.
Contains 12 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed May 15, 2025
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 |
Famous Americans Definitives
✓ |
1844c |
1c (dec 1983) |
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✓ |
1862a |
20c (sep 1988) |
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✓ |
1862b |
20c (jan 1990) |
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1862c |
20c (jan 1984) |
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1863b |
22c (jun 1987) |
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✓ |
1864a |
30c (jun 1988) |
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✓ |
1864b |
30c (jan 1991) |
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1867d |
39c (mar 1985) |
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✓ |
1868a |
40c (jan 1987) |
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✓ |
1869a |
50c (jun 1988) |
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1869d |
50c (feb 1985) |
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✓ |
1869e |
50c (nov 1992) |
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.
