Muir

John Muir was a naturalist who explored much of the western part of the U.S. during the late 1800s and early 1900s, writing about forests, glaciers, and mountains there. He was one of the founders of the Sierra Club, an environmental conservation group. He wrote many books and articles on nature and was instrumental in the founding of national parks in the U.S.

One of Muir’s favorite places to visit and champion was the Sequoia forests in northwest California, not far from San Francisco. I’ve been there a few times. It’s magnificient and so tranquil. The forest is now a national park and has been named after Muir. The third stamp on the second row shows an image of John Muir with that forest in the background.

Note

There are several nice looking stamps and stamps with interesting topics on this album page. Stamp design was at its best in the 1960s – in my opinion. There was much to celebrate, and some things to morn and remember (e.g., assasination of President John Kennedy).

I find the stamp for the World’s Fair in New York interesting: the one at the end of the first row. I remember a girl in my school showed the class a photo of herself in front of that sculpture of the world at the World’s Fair, showing off the fact that she went to the World’s Fair and we didn’t. It’s still there, that sculputure of the world, at Columbus Circle in Manhattan. I’ve seen it a few times in recent years. The fair was from 1964 to 1965. She couldn’t have been there during the fair. She would have been only a few years old and in the picture she was about eight or ten years old. She had been to the site of the fair years after it had closed. Big deal. She bragged about it like it was something special. Sometimes kids that irritated me with their smugness used to get to me. But I remember them many years later and realize they weren’t so great. I put up with so much unnecessary belittling.

Contains 15 spots: own 15 – 15 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
1.1	✓	1243	Jerked Down Charles M. Russell	5c (mar 1964) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	1249	Register & Vote	5c (aug 1964) comm., red & dark blue
1.3	✓	1244	New York World’s Fair	5c (apr 1964) comm., blue green
2.1	✓	1242	Sam Houston	5c (jan 1964) comm., black
2.2	✓	1250	William Shakespeare	5c (aug 1964) comm., black brown
2.3	✓	1245	John Muir	5c (apr 1964) comm., multicolor
2.4	✓	1251	William & Charles Mayo	5c (sep 1964) comm., green
3.1	✓	1252	American Music	5c (oct 1964) comm., red & blue & black
3.2	✓	1246	John F. Kennedy	5c (may 1964) comm., grey blue & blue grey
3.3	✓	1253	Homemakers	5c (oct 1964) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	1247	New Jersey Statehood Philip Carteret, Elizabethtown	5c (jun 1964) comm., bright ultramarine
4.2	✓	1260	Amateur Radio	5c (dec 1964) comm., red lilac
4.3	✓	1258	Verrazano-Narrows Bridge	5c (nov 1964) comm., blue green
5.1	✓	1248	Nevada Statehood	5c (jul 1964) comm., multicolor
5.2	✓	1259	Fine Arts Stuart Davis	5c (dec 1964) comm., multicolor

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.