Show stamps show public parks post office department Is picturing the beauties to be found in the national playgrounds washington scenes from two more of the nations playgrounds found places on united states stares postage stamps simps in september when the rest post office department released the four and eight cent issues of its ha national park series on om september 18 the eight cent zion park utah stamp joined its fellows already released for their twofold purpose of ca carrying nail mail and proclaiming the beauties of americas out of doors the gray green stamp had in its center a reproduction of the great white throne towering ellke rock formation found in the park A week later a four cent sticker of autumn brown color representing nesa verde national park of colorado took its place in the upper right hand corner of part of the nations mall on its face stands in a central design the cameras story of palace an awesome ruin of the now vanished cliff dwellers yellowstone best known nat national onal park if your knowledge of geography ay iy Is good says a bulletin from the washington headquarters of tile the national geographical society you probably will know in which states eight of the ten parks are located but only it if your knowledge Is much better than average will you be able correctly to place them all yellowstone has been familiar to americans since it became the coun arys first nat national lonal park in 1872 yet every year thousands of visitors turn homeward from its gates unaware that its area includes parts of mon tana and idaho as well as wyoming inquiries na as to the situations of the grand canyon arizona mount rainier washington and yosemite california can be answered by most persons with even a casual knowledge of the geography of america but neither the embryo 4 n acre great smoky mountains national park of tennessee and north carolina nor glacier national park la in montana are arc so well known between the longitudes of 0 acadia Nat national lonal park along the rocky coast of maine and crater lake national park in southwestern oregon lie not only the parks that have been been selected for the stamp series but ten others twenty in till all within the continental borders of 0 the united states two more the hawaii national park and mount mckinley national park of 0 alaska complete the list postage stamp geography was not born with the issue of this series the colosseum 0 of rome home Is 13 depleted on an all italian stamp a picture of the are arc de Is the central feature of a french issue and several nations have placed miniature maps on the faces of their stamps in 1000 nicaragua pictured her famous volcanic peak mount momo tombo on a postage stamp some commentators on the history of engineering efforts to construct a canal between the atlantic and oceans assert that the momotombo Momo tombo stamp calling attention to the presence of volcanoes in nicaragua turned the scales in favor of the panama route |