Mt. Rushmore

In South Dakota, if you don’t already know, there’s a set of carvings on the side of Mount Rushmore of four U.S. presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. They represent respectively the nation’s birth, growth, development, and preservation.

Theodore Roosevelt in particular was chosen because he authorized several national parks and was very much into preservation and conservation of nature.

Note

Here’s another batch of stamps that aren’t very interesting or well designed. There’s the one of Mount Rushmore at the top – which is why I’ve named this page as I did. There’s also the small one at the bottom for NATO. It’s not very attractive, albeit better than the others on this page. What’s interesting is that it was issued just two years after NATO started. For something so grand, it’s pretty small.

The other stamp of note on this page is the one for the red cross at the bottom. It was done with two inks. I seem to remember a few other red cross stamps that were done this way, during times when multiple color printing of stamps was rare.

Contains 13 spots: own 13 – 13 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	✓	1005	4-H Clubs	3c (jan 1952) comm., blue green
1.2	✓	1011	Mt. Rushmore Black Hills, South Dakota	3c (aug 1952) comm., blue green
1.3	✓	1009	Grand Coulee Dam	3c (may 1952) comm., blue green
2.1	✓	1006	Rail Transportation	3c (feb 1952) comm., bright blue
2.2	✓	1012	Engineering	3c (sep 1952) comm., blue violet
2.3	✓	1007	American Automobile Assoc.	3c (mar 1952) comm., dark blue
3.1	✓	1010	Marquis de Lafayette	3c (jun 1952) comm., bright blue
3.2	✓	1004	Betsy Ross	3c (jan 1952) comm., carmine rose
3.3	✓	1013	Women in Military	3c (sep 1952) comm., dark blue
4.1	✓	1014	Johann Gutenberg	3c (sep 1952) comm., violet
4.2	✓	1008	NATO	3c (apr 1952) comm., deep violet
4.3	✓	1015	Newspaper Boys	3c (oct 1952) comm., violet
5.1	✓	1016	International Red Cross	3c (nov 1952) comm., carmine & deep blue

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.