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English: First Day Cover commemorating the 75th anniversary of the
First Transcontinental Railroad franked with 3-cent Sc922 issued on May 10, 1944, the 75th anniversary of the driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, U.T., on May 10, 1869. First Day Covers for this issue were authorized to be canceled on that date in three cities — San Francisco, CA, Ogden, UT (transition point between the CPRR and UPRR), and Omaha, NE (starting point of the UPRR).
The illustrated First Day Cover canceled in Omaha includes in its cachet an illustration of the 3-cent Sc114 issued in 1869, the first US postage stamp to illustrate a railroad theme. Along with Sc113 issued at the same time and which illustrated a Pony Express rider, these two postage stamps were the first ever issued by the United States which did not contain a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, the first US Postmaster General, or one of four former US Presidents -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. The cover illustrated here was originally a part of a collection of postal history built over a period of more than half a century beginning in the early 1920s by the late Major General Henry W. Baird, USA. |
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