MY KINFOLKS OF KY AND BEYOND
COAL MINERS
STAMP ISSUED 8/8/2013!
This is a Sheet of 12 self-adhesive stamps. The Sheet is randomly chosen from five possible options featuring its own distinct selvage photograph.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes,� social activist Helen Keller wrote in 1908, �but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.� The Made in America: Building a Nation Forever� stamps honor the courageous workers who helped build our country.
This issuance features five different panes, each with the same 12 stamps, but anchored by different selvage photos. Three of the selvage images and eleven of the black and white stamp images were taken by photographer Lewis Hine, a chronicler of early 20th-century industry.
The panes are designed in three rows of four stamps. In the top row are an airplane maker, a derrick man on the Empire State Building, a millinery apprentice, and a man on a hoisting ball on the Empire State Building. In the middle row are a linotyper in a publishing house, a welder on the Empire State Building, a coal miner, and riveters on the Empire State Building. (The coal miner stamp is the only one of the 12 that does not feature a Hine photograph. The image is from the Kansas State Historical Society.) In the bottom row are a powerhouse mechanic, a railroad track walker, a textile worker, and a man guiding a beam on the Empire State Building.
On the selvage, Hine's images include two Empire State Building iron workers and a General Electric worker measuring the bearings in a casting. The fourth selvage photograph is the same image of the coal miner that appears in the stamp pane. The final selvage photograph, taken by Margaret Bourke-White, depicts a female welder.
Derry Noyes was the project's art director and designer. The Made in America: Building a Nation stamps are being issued as Forever� stamps in self-adhesive panes of 12. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail� one-ounce rate.
Made in the USA.
Issue Date: August 8, 2013
Information taken directly for usps.com.
Written on the back of the coal miner page is the following:
Made in America Building a Nation
�The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, �social activist Helen Keller wrote in 1908, �but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.� These stamps honor the early 20th century workers who helped build America.
Industrial workers� contributions were essential to the growth of the modern United Sates. Coal miners often braved dangerous conditions to do their jobs. Coal, the fruit of their labor, was used to make coke for steel, which formed the foundation of our cities� majestic buildings. Iron workers, including riveters and welders, spent the early part of the 20th century erecting skyscrapers like the Empire State Building.
American industry extended beyond skyscraper construction. Building the country�s railroads was a massive and important undertaking. Since the middle of the 19th century, when the first transcontinental railroad was completed, railroads have carried countless tons of cargo across the nation.
And as the photographs on these stamps attest, women�s contributions to early 20th century industry were vital, with textile and millinery workers spending until hours toiling in factories without much recognition.
As time has passed, Americans have come to appreciate the people who latterly built out nation � thanks in part to chroniclers like Lewis Hines (1874-1940), the photographer who shot many of the images on these stamps. �There are two things I wanted to do,� he once said. �I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected. I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.�
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