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The original emblem / logo used, which was a
lighthouse with a
wheat cluster
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The final emblem, which was a round logo with a
lighthouse
We also believe that there should be a series of stamps honoring some of the
people who ran our nation’s lighthouses. These would include: Stephen
Pleasanton, the man who was in charge of our nation’s lighthouses for 32
years and also the same man who saved the Declaration of Independence and
other valuable government papers in the War of 1812; Rear Admiral William B.
Shubrick, the first chairman of the U.S. Lighthouse Board and the man who
had the Lighthouse Depot on Staten Island built; George Putnam, the first
commissioner of the United States Lighthouse Service, who served from 1910
to 1935, and Harold D. King, the last commissioner of the United States
Lighthouse Service who served from 1935 to 1939 when the Lighthouse Service
was dissolved and merged into the Coast Guard.
Others who should be honored on postage stamps would be some of our famous
lighthouse keepers such as Abbie Burgess, Elson Small, Ida Lewis, Fannie
Salter, John Buckridge, Unaka Jennette, Joshua Strout, Julia Williams and
others. We should also honor other famous lighthouse people such as
Lighthouse Engineer Frederic Morong, Jr., who wrote the poem “Brassworks,”
Lighthouse Superintendent Charles Brush and Civil War hero Orlando Poe who
built many lighthouses.
To take it one step further, we need a series of postage stamps that feature
a number of our nation’s lightships that served where it was too expensive
or too dangerous to build a lighthouse. Lightship duty was considered the
most dangerous duty in the Lighthouse Service and the Coast Guard.
Send your letters requesting the above to:
Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
Stamp Development
1735 North Lynn St., Room 5013
Arlington, VA 22209-6432
