Stamps from the USA: 1990

Idaho.

Mountain Bluebird.

2439

Love.

2440

Black Heritage.

Ida B. Wells.

2442

Beach Umbrella.

2443

Wyoming 1890 - 1990.

2444

Classic Films.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, who died twenty years before the film was released. It features Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Frank Morgan, with Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charles Grapewin, Clara Blandick and the Singer Midgets as the Munchkins. Notable for its use of special effects, Technicolor, fantasy storytelling and unusual characters, The Wizard of Oz has become, over the years, one of the best-known of all films and a true classic. However, although it received largely positive reviews and won three Academy Awards, it was only a modest hit at the time of its original release, making a profit of only about a million dollars.

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Gone With The Wind.

Set in the 19th century American South, the film stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel, among others, and tells a story of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era from a Southern point of view.
The film received 10 Academy Awards (8 competitive, 2 honorary), a record that stood for 20 years. In the American Film Institute's inaugural Top 100 Best American Films of All Time list of 1998, it was ranked fourth. "Gone With the Wind" has sold more tickets in the U.S. than any other film in history, and is considered one of the greatest and most popular films of all time and an enduring symbol of the golden age of Hollywood. The film was the longest American sound film made up to that time - three hours and 44 minutes in length, plus a four-minute intermission.

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Beau Geste.

The film is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1926 film starring Ronald Colman. This version is probably the best known adaptation, with Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford, and Brian Donlevy. Donlevy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Stagecoach.

Directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.

Although Ford had made many westerns in the silent film era, he had never directed a sound western. Between 1929–1939, he directed films of almost every other genre, including Wee Willie Winkie (1937) starring Shirley Temple. Stagecoach was to be his first sound western and the first of many that Ford made on location in Monument Valley, in the American southwest on the Arizona-Utah border, many of which also starred John Wayne.

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Marianne Moore.

2449

Transportations.

Circus Wagon 1900.

2450

Steam Carriage 1866.

2451

Circus Wagon 1900.

2452

Canoe 1800.

2453

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Tractor Trailer 1930.

2458

Cog Railway 1870.

2463

Lunch Wagon 1890.

2464

Ferryboat 1900.

2466

Seaplane 1914.

2468

Lighthouses.

Admiralty Head, Washington.

2470

Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

2471

West Quoddy Head, Maine.

2472

American Shoals, Florida.

2473

Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

2474

American Flag.

2475

American Kestrel.

2476

2477

Eastern Bluebird.

2478

Fawn.

2479

Cardinal.

2480

Pumpkinseed Sunfish.

2481

Bobcat.

2482

Blue Jay.

2483

Wood Duck.

2484

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African Violet.

2486

Peach.

2487

Pear.

2488

Red Squirrel.

2489

Rose.

2490

Pine Cone.

2491

Rose.

2492

Olympian.

Jesse Owens 1936.

2496

Ray Ewry 1900.

2497

Hazel Wightman 1924.

2498

Eddie Eagan 1920.

2499

Helene Madison 1932.

2500

Indian Headdresses.

Assiniboine.

2501

Cheyenne.

2502

Comanche.

2503

Flathead.

2504

Shoshone.

2505

Federated States of Micronesia.

2506

Republic of the Marshall Islands.

2507

Sea Creatures.

Killer Whale.

2508

Northern Sea Lion.

2509

Sea Otter.

2510

Common Dolphin.

2511

2512

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (1.83 km) (6000 feet). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists, recent evidence suggests the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago.Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to the point we see it at today.
Before European immigration, the area was inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon ("Ongtupqa" in Hopi language a holy site and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.

Dwight David Eisenhower.