agree with Rileysan. I can't get enough of the Pictorials either. It is hard to fathom the mood of the public back in 1869 to turn their backs on such a beautiful series that I think was emblematic in many ways of the best of America and quite appropriate for an emerging global power sitting right on the cusp of the industrial revolution and having just survived self-destruction in the Civil War. Certainly, it would have been hard to imaging the 10 cent, 30 cent or the 90 cent stamp without the preceding decade and it strikes me as odd that it took 40 years after the founding of the B and O Railroad for a locomotive to grace a stamp given the importance of the railroad for westward expansion even east of the Mississippi over the preceding 3 decades.
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