Object Details
Description
The Postal Service issued a 20 stamp sheet of 32-cent Civil War stamps on June 29, 1995 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Designed by Mark Hess of Katonah, New York, the stamps are the second installment of the Classic Collection.
Featured in the issue are: the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton, Ulysses S. Grant, the Battle of Shiloh, Jefferson Davis, David Farragut, Frederick Douglass, Raphael Semmes, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Stand Watie, Joseph E. Johnston, Winfield Hancock, Mary Chesnut, the Battle of Chancellorsville, William T. Sherman, Phoebe Pember, "Stonewall" Jackson, and the Battle of Gettysburg. An explanatory text is on the back of each stamp. Stamp Venturers, Inc. printed the stamps in the gravure process.
Reference: Postal Bulletin (June 8, 1995)
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Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
June 29, 1995
Object number
1996.2081.197.8
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (multicolored)/ photogravure
Place
District of Columbia
United States of America
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National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Contemporary (1990-present)
Humanitarian Causes
Black Heritage
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_1996.2081.197.8