Dave Thompsen Photography

Stamp Treks

As a stamp collector, I’ve been interested in the subjects depicted in our postage stamps, so after researching them, I traveled to dozens of places within New England to learn more about them and to capture artful images of those places – the result is my Stamp Treks series of art works.

These works are now available in my Stamp Treks album containing illustrated pages with (or without) stamps organized in a handsome 3-ring binder, sold on eBay.

The list of artworks below provide a link to selected works that I sell through my Fine Art America online shop, a Google Maps link to the place where I took the photograph, and a link to the Mystic Stamp Company listing for the stamp,

An artistic photograph of the Joseph Conrad tall ship berthed at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.

Art: The Joseph Conrad

Place: Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT

Stamp: 1988 Connecticut Statehood

Art: Old Massachusetts Statehouse

Place: 206 Washington St, Boston, MA

Stamp: 1988 Massachusetts Statehood

Art: Old Man of the Mountain Site

Place: Franconia Notch SP, NH

Stamp: 1988 New Hampshire Statehood

Art: Slater Mill

Place: Pawtucket, RI

Stamp: 1990 Rhode Island Statehood

Art: Vermont Farm

Place: Groton, VT

Stamp: 1991 Vermont Statehood

Art: Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse

Place: Cape Elizabeth, ME

Stamp: 1970 Maine Statehood

A photograph of the Mayflower II replica tall ship berthed in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Art: Mayflower II

Place: Plymouth, MA

Stamp: 1970 Landing of the Pilgrims

Art: Old Ironsides

Place: Charlestown MA

Stamp: 2012 USS Constitution

Art: Bunker Hill Monument

Place: Charlestown MA

Stamp: 1968 John Trumbull

Art: John Paul Jones House

Place: Portsmouth, NH

Stamp: 1979 John Paul Jones

Art: Mark Twain House

Place: Hartford, CT

Stamp: 2011 Mark Twain

Art: Edith Wharton House

Place: Lennox, MA

Stamp: 1980 Edith Wharton

Art: Emily Dickinson House

Place: Amherst, MA

Stamp: 1971 Emily Dickinson

Art: Mercury-Redstone Rocket

Place: Concord, NH

Stamp: 2011 Alan Shepard

Art: First Automated Post Office

Place: Providence, RI

Stamp: 1960 First Automated Post Office

Art: Prout’s Neck

Place: Scarborough, ME

Stamp: 1962 Winslow Homer

Art: House of Seven Gables

Place: Salem, MA

Stamp: 1983 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Art: Acadia Lighthouse

Place: Bass Harbor, ME

Stamp: 2001 Acadia National Park

Art: John Harvard Statue

Place: Cambridge, MA

Stamp: 1986 John Harvard

Art: Curious George Shop

Place: (was in Cambridge, MA)

Stamp: 2006 Curious George

Art: Mark I Computer

Place: Cambridge, MA

Stamp: 1996 Computer Technology

Art: Rachel Carson NWR

Place: Wells, ME

Stamp: 1981 Rachel Carson

Art: Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden

Place: Springfield, MA

Stamp: 2004 Theodor Seuss Geisel

Art: Basketball Hall of Fame

Place: Springfield, MA

Stamp: 1961 James Naismith

Art: Norman Rockwell Studio

Place: Stockbridge, MA

Stamp: 1994 Norman Rockwell

Art: JFK Library

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1964 John F. Kennedy

Art: Prescott Farm Windmill

Place: Middletown, RI

Stamp: 1980 Rhode Island Windmill

Art: Mechanic Street Portsmouth

Place: Portsmouth, NH

Stamp: 2002 Greetings from New Hampshire

Art: Mount Chocorua

Place: Tamworth, NH

Stamp: 2012 ee cummings

A photograph of Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Art: Portland Head Lighthouse

Place: Cape Elizabeth, ME

Stamp: 2013 Portland Head Maine Lighthouse

Art: Longfellow House

Place: Cambridge, MA

Stamp: 2007 Longfellow

Art: Phillips Exeter Academy Library

Place: Exeter, NH

Stamp: 2005 Exeter Academy Library

Art: Boston Harbor Light

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 2013 Boston Harbor Massachusetts

A photograph of the Portsmouth Lighthouse on the coast of New Hampshire.

Art: Portsmouth Harbor Light at Sunrise

Place: New Castle, NH

Stamp: 2013 Portsmouth Harbor New Hampshire

Art: Point Judith Light

Place: Narragansett, RI

Stamp: 2013 Point Judith Rhode Island

Art: Lexington Minuteman

Place: Lexington, MA

Stamp: 1975 Lexington & Concord (Sandham)

Art: Cog Railway

Place: Twin Mountain, NH

Stamp: 1995 Cog Railway

Art: Boston Tea Party

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1973 The Boston Tea Party

Art: Saint-Gaudens Fountain

Place: Cornish, NH

Stamp: 1940 Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Art: John Copley

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1965 John Copley – American Artist

Art: Thoreau Statue

Place: Concord, MA

Stamp: 1967 Henry David Thoreau

Art: Emerson House

Place: Concord, MA

Stamp: 1940 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art: Gropius House

Place: Lincoln, MA

Stamp: 1982 Gropius House

Art: Marconi Station

Place: Wellfleet, MA

Stamp: 1973 Progress in Electronics (Marconi)

Art: Massachusetts Statehouse

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1979 American Architecture: Boston State House

Art: Paul Revere Statue

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1958 Paul Revere

Art: Olmsted House

Place: Brookline, MA

Stamp: 1999 Frederick Law Olmsted

Art: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Place: Boothbay, ME

Stamp: 2020 Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Art: Edgar Allan Poe Statue

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 2009 Edgar Allan Poe

Art: Fort Knox Cannon

Place: Prospect, ME

Stamp: 1985 Henry Knox

Art: 13 Mile Woods

Place: Milan, NH

Stamp: 2008 13 Mile Woods, New Hampshire

Art: Herman Melville House

Place: Pittsfield, MA

Stamp: 1984 Herman Melville

Art: John Adams Statue

Place: Quincy, MA

Stamp: 1986 John Adams (Ameripex)

Art: Harriet Beecher Stowe House

Place: Hartford, CT

Stamp: 2007 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Art: Robert Frost Farm

Place: Derry, NH

Stamp: 1974 Robert Frost

Art: Franklin Pierce Statue

Place: Concord, NH

Stamp: 1986 Franklin Pierce (Ameripex)

Art: Robert Goddard Memorial

Place: Worcester, MA

Stamp: 1964 Robert Goddard

Art: Chesterwood

Place: Stockbridge, MA

Stamp: 1940 Daniel Chester French

Art: Arthur Fiedler Statue

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1997 Arthur Fiedler

Art: Orchard House

Place: Concord, MA

Stamp: 1940 Louisa May Alcott

Art: Eastham Windmill

Place: Eastham, MA

Stamp: 1980 Massachusetts Windmill

Art: Willard House

Place: North Grafton, MA

Stamp: 2008 American Clock (Simon Willard)

Art: Ogunquit Coast

Place: Ogunquit, ME

Stamp: 2020 Maine Statehood

Art: Building the PInnace Virginia

Place: Bath, ME

Stamp: 1957 Shipbuilding Anniversary

Art: Carousel Horses

Place: Providence, RI

Stamp: 1995 Carousel Horse

Art: Ben Franklin Statue

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1956 Benjamin Franklin

Art: Daniel Webster Statue

Place: Concord, NH

Stamp: 1969 Daniel Webster Dartmouth College Case

Art: Eric Carle Museum

Place: Amherst, MA

Stamp: 2006 The Very Hungry Caterpillar

A photograph of the Minuteman Statue at North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts.

Art: Minuteman Statue at North Bridge

Place: Concord, MA

Stamp: 1942 War Savings: Minuteman

Art: View from Cadillac Mountain

Place: Acadia NP, ME

Stamp: 1934 Acadia

Art: Julia Ward Howe’s Brownstone

Place: Boston, MA (private residence now)

Stamp: 1987 Julia Ward Howe

Art: Phillis Wheatley Statue

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 2026 Phillis Wheatley

Art: Lucy Stone Statue

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1968 Lucy Stone

Art: Abigail Adams Statue

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1985 Abigail Adams

Art: John Hancock Memorial

Place: Boston, MA

Stamp: 1976 Declaration of Independence: Hancock and Thomson