The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-01-17

time to time, known as commemora-
tive stamps. The first of these APP
peared in 1893 to commemorate Col
were sixteen of these stamps, ranging
in denomination from one cent to So,
each one telling a little of the story:
Columbus in Sight of Land. the Land
ing of Columbus, the Flagship of
Columbus, the Fleet of Columbus,
Columbus Soliciting the Aid of Isa-
bella, Columbus Welcomed at BARGE
Iona, Columbus Restored to Favor,
Columbus Presenting Natives, Column
bus Announcing His Discovery, Colum-
bus at La Rabida, Recall of Columbus,
Isabella Pledging Her Jewels. Column
bus in Chains, Columbus Describing
His Third Voyage, Isabella and Column
bus. and Columbus alone.
After five years another commemo-
rative series followed. known as
Transmississippi-O Omaha stamps, is
sued during the Transmississippi and
international exposition. The nine
denominations, ranging from one cent
to So, were titled Marquette on the
Mississippi, Farming in the West, In
dian Hunting Buffalo. Fremont on
Rocky Mountains. Troops Guarding
Train, Hardships of Emigration, West
ern Mining Prospector, Western Cat
tie in Storm and Mississippi River
Bridge.
The Pan-American exposition at
Buffalo in 1901 was marked by an
other series, depicting means Of trans
portation. A lake steamer was shown
on the one-cent stamp, railway
train on the two-cent, steel-arch
bridge on the fve-cent, ship canal
lock on the eight-cent and an ocean
steamship on the ten-cent stamp.
The next special series celebrated
the purchase of Louisiana from
France. The stamps bore severally
the portraits of the men most respon-
sible for accomplishing it-Robert R.
Livingston. minister to France at the
time; Thomas Jefferson, President,
and James Monroe, special ambassa-
dor to France.
The jamestown series Of 1907 fol-
lowed, depicting the landing of the
colonists 300 years before and bearing
the likenesses of Capt. John Smith
and Pocahontas. The first single
commemorative stamp-that is to say
one that belonged to no series-was
that of 1909 to mark the development
of the Alaska Yukon-Pacific territory,
having for it's design the portrait of
William H Seward, who as secretary
of state negotiated the purchase of
Alaska from Russia.
In the same year two-cent stamp,
showing Henry Hudson's Half Moon
sailing past the Palisades and Robert
Fulton's Clermont under full steam,
commemorated not only the discovery
of the Hudson river but also the
centennial Of its first navigation by
steam. The 1928 series marked
the opening Of the Panama canal and
the discovery of the Pacific ocean. In
1919 a special three-cent stamp was
issued to commemorate the successful
outcome Of the World war. 1t de-
picted figure of Liberty victorious
against a background of the flags of
the United States, England. France,
Italy and Belgium.
In 1920 the Pilgrim Tercentenary
was celebrated with three stamps IL
Illustrated by the Mayfiower. the land
ing of the Pilgrims and the signing of
the Mayf1ower Compact aboard that
historic ship. The coming Of the
Huguenot- Walloons to America was
celebrated in a tercentenary series in
1924 and the arrival of the first i'm
migrants to the United States from
Norway In 1895 was also the inspira-
ton for another series. known as the
orse-American SERIES
During the past five years the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary Of
many of the stirring deeds of the Rev.
dictionary war has given the i'm
petus to a large number of patriotic
issues The first of these came out
In 1925 with the issue of the three
Lexington-C Concord stamps Then came
the Sesquicentennial stamps with the
Bell of Liberty in 1926, closely fol-