{"id":26363,"date":"2019-05-09T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26363"},"modified":"2019-05-09T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:34:41","slug":"postal-service-transcontinental-railroad-stamp-will-be-released-friday-may-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/05\/09\/postal-service-transcontinental-railroad-stamp-will-be-released-friday-may-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Transcontinental Railroad Stamp Will Be Released Friday, May 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/StampTranscontinentalRailroadBackground_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/StampTranscontinentalRailroadBackground_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/StampTranscontinentalRailroadBackground_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/StampTranscontinentalRailroadBackground_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/StampTranscontinentalRailroadBackground_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"Transcontinental Railroad stamps\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>The Transcontinental Railroad stamps images of the Jupiter and No. 119 locomotives and the golden spike used to mark the railroad\u2019s completion in 1869.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<h6><em>The Postal Service will release its Transcontinental Railroad stamp Friday, May 10.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 5\/9\/19 &#8211; The stamp will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the cross-country railroad, which was one of the great achievements of the era. The completion was marked by the \u201cgolden spike ceremony,\u201d held May 10, 1869.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscent of traditional 19th century oil painting techniques, the three distinct stamp designs feature the Jupiter and the No. 119 locomotives bordering the famous golden spike that was a prominent part of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Breeding, a USPS art director, designed the stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Michael J. Deas illustrated the Jupiter and No. 119 stamps using traditional 19th-century oil painting techniques. Kevin Cantrell illustrated the stamp depicting the ceremonial golden spike and did the border treatments and typography for all three stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Dedication of the stamp will take place at the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/gosp\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Spike National Historic Site<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in Promontory Summit, UT.<\/p>\n<p>The stamp will be available at Post Offices and at\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.usps.com\/store\/product\/buy-stamps\/transcontinental-railroad-S_570404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">usps.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transcontinental Railroad stamps images of the Jupiter and No. 119 locomotives and the golden spike used to mark the railroad\u2019s completion in 1869. The Postal Service will release its Transcontinental Railroad stamp Friday, May 10. USPS News Link &#8211; 5\/9\/19 &#8211; The stamp will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the cross-country railroad, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26365,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363\/revisions\/26365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}