First Decade

Sixty percent of Americans lived on farms or in small towns. Immigrants were arriving on an average of 100 an hour. Railroads domainated land travel, but 1900 saw the first U.S. auto show and 1908 the first family transcontinental car trip. In 1908 Henry Ford made automobiles more affordable with the Model T. The Wright brothers stunned the world with their first airplane flight in 1903, and the game of baseball grew up.

President Theodore Roosevelt protected 148 million acres as national forests. The first daily comic strip, “Mutt and Jeff”, appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. The Ash Can School brought realism back to the art world.

Muckrakers exposed corruption: Ida Tarbell attacked monopoly in the oil industry, and Upton Sinclair revealed shocking conditions in the meat industry. In 1909 the newly formed NAACP promoted equal rights for African Americans.

Note

Normally, I write my own text describing the stamps on an album page. But for this series of stamps, I’ve copied the text on each souvenir page since they’re extensive and cover each batch of stamps well enough.

Contains 15 spots: own 0 – 0 unused, 0 used.

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	catalog	subject	description
1.1	3182a	Model T Ford	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
1.2	3182b	Theodore Roosevelt	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
1.3	3182c	The Great Train Robbery	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
1.4	3182d	Crayola Crayons	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
1.5	3182e	St. Louis World Fair	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
2.1	3182f	Pure Food and Drugs Act	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
2.2	3182g	Kitty Hawk	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
2.3	3182h	Ash Can Painters	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
3.1	3182i	Immigrants Arrive	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
3.2	3182j	John Muir	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
4.1	3182k	Teddy Bear Created	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
4.2	3182l	W.E.B. Du Bois	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
4.3	3182m	Gibson Girl	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
4.4	3182n	First World Series	32¢ (02 1998) comm., multicolor
4.5	3182o	Robie House in Chicago	32¢ (02 1998) 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.