The Thirties
By 1933 the average wage was 60 percent less than in 1929 and unemployment had skyrocketed to 25 percent. Dust storms forced many farmers to give up their land.
Americans escaped harsh realities by playing Monopoly, reading the adventures of “Buck Rogers” and “Flash Gordon”, and listening to Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust”. Popular films included King Kong and It Happened One Night. For the first time, African-American athletes became national idols: Joe Lewis in boxing and Jesse Owens in track and field.
Prohibition was repealed in 1933. President Franklin Roosevelt fought the Great Depression with his New Deal programs. The “Star-Spangled Banner” was chosen as the national anthem. The Empire State Building rose above the Manhattan skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge spanned the San Francisco Bay. Back on the ground, the parking meter made its first appearance in 1935.
As the decade closed, many Americans were anxious about the growing war in Europe.
Note
When I bought the Leuchtturm album pages for this five-year period, I shotly afterwards bought the annual packs the Post Office sold for each year – I bought them from a dealer in Italy. Those didn’t include definitives or this series of souvenir sheets. Eventually, I’ll buy them from a dealer in the U.S. Until then, these pages are empty.
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 |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
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3185a |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185b |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185c |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185d |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185e |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185f |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185g |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185h |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185i |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185j |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185k |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185l |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185m |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185n |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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3185o |
32¢ (09 1998) |
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.
