Celebrate the Century

Celebrate the Century is a series of postage stamps made by the United States Postal Service featuring images recalling various important events in the 20th century in the United States.

The top left hand corner sported the decade in a number format, the entire background of the sheet was devoted a specific event of that decade (e.g. the Wright brothers standing next to their Flyer II on the 1900s sheet.)

[8][12][13][14] The CTC stamp program was publicised through an award-winning[6] travelling railway museum tour, named Celebrate the Century Express commissioned by the USPS consisting of a locomotive and three cars.

[15][16][17] This train travelled for eighteen months from 11 March 1999[15] through fall 19 November 2000[6] throughout the continental US to showcase the mail to the US public.

[16] During its journey it travelled through 100 cities in 42 states and had more than 111,000 visitors including 6,000 children.

[4][5] The program kits were created for students from grades 3 to 6, and was available to teachers free of charge.

Each kit included a teacher's guide, a student activity magazine, computer activities, internet linked sites, multimedia classroom visuals, school balloting for students and take home projects for children for parental participation.

[27] Denomination: 32¢ No of stamps in sheet: 15 The stamps: Background image: Members of a dance troupe strike poses from the Charleston on a California beach during a break in the filming of a movie in 1926.

[31] The photo of Florence Owens Thompson, taken by photographer Dorothea Lange and titled Migrant Mother (1936), is an iconic image of the Great Depression.

[33] Denomination: 33¢ No of stamps in sheet: 15 The stamps: Background image: A landing party of United States Marines storm a beach on Saipan, a Japanese stronghold in the Mariana Islands in 1944.

Intaglio stamp: Buzz Aldrin's lunar foot print.

[41] Denomination: 33¢ No of stamps in sheet: 15 The stamps: Background image: Ships gather in New York Harbor under the Statue of Liberty to take part in Bicentennial celebrations, July 4, 1976, marked the 200th birthday of the United States.

[43][44] Title: Space Shuttle Launched, Berlin Wall Falls.

[47] Title: In Final Decade, Cold War Ends, Economy Booms.