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Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. [20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
Currency and postage Official $20 bill prototype prepared by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 2016. Tubman was the first African-American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp when a 13-cent stamp designed by artist Jerry Pinkney was issued by the United States Postal Service in 1978. A second, 32-cent stamp featuring Tubman was ...
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
The first portrait of a woman on a US postage stamp. 8-cent Martha Washington Stamp, Issued 1902 The first stamp featuring an American women. [2] The history of women on US stamps begins in 1893, when Queen Isabella became the first woman on a US stamp. [3] Queen Isabella helped support Christopher Columbus 's 1492 voyage, and 1893 marked the ...
John F. Kennedy (1996, 2018) Coretta Scott King (2018) Martin Luther King Jr. (1996, 2018) L. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (2011) Pierre André Latreille (2011) Jean Jules Linden (2011) Wang Liqin (2011) David Livingstone (2018) Louis XIV (2018) Marinus van der Lubbe (2018) M. Nelson Mandela (1996, 2018) Felix Mendelssohn (2011)
Through the years, a person has had to be deceased before their face appeared on a stamp, [1] though the USPS will document that a stamp has commemorated people, living or deceased, without including their actual face on the stamp – such as the image of a yellow submarine from the 1969 eponymous album cover shown on the 1999 stamp [2 ...
The first Central African Republic stamp issued in 1959 depicting Boganda. The Central African Republic has been issuing stamps since 1959. Before this, it was called Ubangi-Shari. [1] [2] Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous state within the French Community and was renamed the Central African Republic on 1 December 1958.
The first stamps of independent Lesotho were issued on 4 October 1966. [2] On 1 November of that year, the 1961-1963 set of Basutoland was overprinted "LESOTHO". In 1979, the currency was changed from South African rand to lisente (s) and maloti (m). In 1980-1981 the then current 1976-1978 definitives were overprinted with the new currency, and ...