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Women on US stamps. 4-dollar Queen Isabella and Christopher Columbus Stamp, Issued 1893. [ 1] The first portrait of a woman on a US postage stamp. 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 ...
This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps, listed by their name, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a short description of their notability. Since the United States Post Office (now United States Postal Service or USPS) issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and ...
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
poster from 1943. " We Can Do It! " is an American World War II wartime poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost female worker morale. The poster was little seen during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do ...
The four stamps clearly and deliberately depict members of the team including captain Michael Vaughan and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff. A series of stamps released in January 2007 featured some of the most famous Beatles album covers, which also show members of the band. Similarly, a 2011 stamp features actor David Tennant in the role of Hamlet.
Second Soviet Union-issued postage stamp dedicated to Pavlichenko. The American folk singer Woody Guthrie composed a song ("Miss Pavlichenko") as a tribute to her war record and to memorialize her visits to the United States and Canada. [21] [non-primary source needed] It was released as part of The Asch Recordings. [22] [23] [non-primary ...
Washington gets a shave, 1967. The Prominent Americans series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Post Office Department (and later the United States Postal Service) between 1965 and 1978. It superseded the Liberty Issue of 1954, which by the mid-1960s had become somewhat dated, especially in its focus on political figures.
This design is the 47th stamp in the Black Heritage series and honors Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005), the first Black woman known to have argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court and the ...