USPS Celebrate the Century Series

UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS), beginning in February 1998,  released the first sheets of "Celebrate the Century" stamps. Prompted by the upcoming millennium celebration, this  series recognised influential American people and events, arts and entertainment, lifestyles, sports, politics, and science and technology  that shaped the 20th century.  Each sheet contained 15 stamps for each decade, making a total of 150 stamps issued in this series.

 Stamps featured in the 1900s
- Model T Ford
- President Theodore Roosevelt
- The Great Train Robbery (film)
- Crayola Crayons
- St. Louis World's Fair
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Kitty Hawk
- Ash Can Painters
- Immigrants Arrive
- John Muir
- Teddy Bear Created
- W.E.B. du Bois
- Gibson Girl
- First World Series
- Robie House, Chicago

 

 

Stamps featured in the 1910s 

1st row:
- Charlie Chaplin;
- Federal Reserve System;
- George Washington Carver
2nd row:
- 1913 Armory Show;
- Transcontinental telephone line;
- Panama Canal
3rd row:
- Jim Thorpe;
- Grand Canyon;
- WWI - I Want You;
- Boy Scouts of America;
- President Woodrow Wilson;
4th row:
- First Crossword puzzle;
- Jack Dempsey;
- Erector Set;
- Child Labor Reform

Stamps featured in the 1920s
- Babe Ruth
- Gatsby Style
- Prohibition
- Toy Trains
- 19th Amendment
- Emily Post
- Margaret Mead
- Charleston Dance
- Radio America
- Art Deco Style
- Jazz
- Four Horsemen (Notre Dame Football)
- Charles Lindbergh
- Realism
- Stock Market Crash

Images featured in the 1930s
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Empire State Building
- Life Magazine Debuts
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- FDR's New Deal
- Superman
- Kitchens Revolutionized
- Snow White
- Gone with the Wind
- Jesse Owens
- Streamline Design
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Depression Survival
- Bobby Jones
- Monopoly Game

 

Stamps featured in the 1940s
- World War II
- Antibiotics
- Jackie Robinson
- Harry S. Truman
- We Can Do It!
- TV Entertains America
- Jitterbug Sweeps Nation
- Abstract Expressionism
- GI Bill
- Big Band Sound
- International Architecture
- Postwar Baby Boom
- Slinky Craze
- Streetcar Named Desire
- Citizen Kane

Stamps featured in the 1950s
- Polio Vaccine
- Teen Fashion
- Shot Heard Round the World
- US Launches Satellite
- Korean War
- Public School Desegregation
- Tail Fins and Chrome
- Cat in the Hat
- Drive-In Movies
- World Series Rivals
- Rocky Marciano
- I Love Lucy
- Rock 'n Roll
- Stock Car Racing
- 3-D Movies

Stamps featured in the 1960s
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Woodstock
- Man Walks on Moon
- Green Bay Packers
- Star Trek
- Peace Corps
- Vietnam War
- Ford Mustang
- Barbie Doll
- Integrated Circuit
- Lasers
- Super Bowl I
- Peace Symbol
- Roger Maris
- The Beatles (Yellow Submarine film)

Stamps featured in the 1970s
- Earth Day
- All in the Family
- Sesame Street
- Disco
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Bicentennial
- Secretariat
- VCRs
- Pioneer 10
- Women's Rights Movement
- Fashion
- Monday Night Football
- Smiley Face
- Jumbo Jets
- Medical Imaging

Stamps featured in the 1980s 

1st row:
- Space Shuttle;
- Cats an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical;
- San Francisco 49ers; Iran hostage crisis;
Figure skating
2nd row:
- Cable TV;
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial;
- Compact Disc;
- Cabbage Patch Kids;
- The Cosby Show
3rd row:
- Fall of the Berlin Wall;
- Video games;
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4th row:
- Personal computer;
- Hip hop culture