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The sheets were designed by Ethel Kessler [2] and illustrated by artist John D. Dawson [8][9] for the USPS. [10][11] The original idea for the series, conceived 1996, [2] was for a set of four American desert stamps. [2] This was inspired by the success of Desert Plants commemorative stamps released in 1981. [2] Artist John D. Dawson was recommended by art director Howard Paine [2] and ...
The first revenue stamps in the United States were used briefly during colonial times, among the most notable usage involved the Stamp Act. Long after independence, the first revenue stamps printed by the United States government were issued in the midst of the American Civil War, prompted by the urgent need to raise revenue to pay for the great costs it incurred. After the war ended however ...
The advent of robotic and human spaceflight presented a new era of American history. Keeping with the tradition of honoring the country's history on U.S. postage stamps, the U.S. Post Office began commemorating the various events with its commemorative postage stamp issues. The first U.S. Postage issue to depict a U.S. space vehicle was issued in 1948, the Fort Bliss issue. The first issue to ...
A certificate of a $5 deposit in the United States Postal Savings System issued on September 10, 1932 The United States Postal Savings System was a postal savings system signed into law by President William Howard Taft and operated by the United States Post Office Department, predecessor of the United States Postal Service, from January 1, 1911, until July 1, 1967. [1][2]
The Elvis Presley Forever stamp is a forever postage stamp released as a part of the Music Icons series issued by the United States Postal Service. It features Presley in a 1955 black and white photograph taken by William Speer.
Postage due stamps were issued for some time and were pasted by the post office to letters having insufficient postage with the postage due to be paid to the postal carrier at the receiving address. Today, many stamps issued by the post office are self-adhesive, and no longer require that the stamps be "licked" to activate the glue on their back.
The interior of SubTropolis SubTropolis is a business complex located inside of a 55,000,000-square-foot (5,100,000 m 2), 1,260-acre (5.1 km 2) mine in the bluffs north of the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri. It was developed by late Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt via Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development, Inc., with the trademarked phrase World's Largest Underground Business ...
War Savings Certificate stamps The primary, interest-earning stamp issued was the War Savings Certificate stamp, which was worth 5 dollars at maturity on January 1, 1923. These stamps needed to be affixed to an engraved folder called the War Savings Certificate, which carried the name of the purchaser, and could only be redeemed by that individual.