George Eastman

On the second to last row, the second stamp in deep reddish brown depicts George Eastman. He was the founder of Eastman Kodak, the photographic film and camera company that made photography popular and accessible to the general public starting in the early part of the Twentieth Century. Incidentally, the name Kodak was a name he devised and tested for product marketability.

There was a large Eastman Kodak factory near where I lived in Peabody, Massachusetts when I was a boy. They also owned a large amount of land, many acres at the end of my street. Part of it was a park and the rest was a fenced area where they kept and dumped chemicals from their factory. I used to play on that land as a boy. It didn’t seem to have had any adverse effects on the community or me, but we were warned not to touch the chemicals or get them in our eyes.

Note

The stamp of George Eastman is the only nice looking stamp on this page. That’s the primarily reason why I named this page for that stamp. The 1950s were a dull time for stamp designs. If this is all there were, I never would have collected U.S. stamps. Thank goodness for the 1960s when multiple color and well drawn stamps became the norm.

Contains 17 spots: own 17 – 17 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Mar 23, 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
1.1	✓	1017	National Guards	3c (feb 1953) comm., bright blue
1.2	✓	1018	Ohio Statehood	3c (mar 1953) comm., chocolate
1.3	✓	1019	Washington Territory	3c (mar 1953) comm., green
2.1	✓	1020	Louisiana Purchase	3c (apr 1953) comm., violet brown
2.2	✓	1021	Cmdr. Matthew Perry Tokyo Bay, Japan	5c (jul 1953) comm., green
2.3	✓	1022	American Bar Assoc.	3c (aug 1953) comm., pink violet
3.1	✓	1024	Future Farms of America	3c (oct 1953) comm., dark blue
3.2	✓	1023	Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay	3c (sep 1953) comm., yellow green
3.3	✓	1025	Truck & Farm	3c (oct 1953) comm., violet
4.1	✓	1026	Gen. George S. Patton	3c (nov 1953) comm., blue violet
4.2	✓	1028	Gadsden Purchase	3c (dec 1953) comm., copper brown
4.3	✓	1027	New York City New Amsterdam Harbor	3c (nov 1953) comm., bright red violet
5.1	✓	1029	Columbia University	3c (jan 1954) comm., blue
5.2	✓	1062	George Eastman Eastman Kodak Founder	3c (jul 1954) comm., violet brown
5.3	✓	1060	Nebraska Territory Mitchell Pass	3c (may 1954) comm., violet
6.1	✓	1061	Kansas Territory	3c (may 1954) comm., brownish orange
6.2	✓	1063	Meriwether Lewis & William Clark	3c (jul 1954) comm., violet brown

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.