Object Details
Depicts
Charles Edward Ives, American, 1874 - 1954
Description
The Postal Service issued eight 32-cent Classical Composers and Conductors commemorative stamps on September 12, 1997, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The stamps honor eight great American composers and conductors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Conductors Leopold Stokowski, Arthur Fiedler, George Szell, and Eugene Ormandy are featured on the stamps in concert attire and are captured while in action during concert performances. Expressive portraits represent composers Samuel Barber, Ferde Grofe, Charles Ives, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
Designed by Howard Paine of Delaplane, Virginia, and illustrated by Burt Silverman of New York, New York, the stamps were printed in panes of twenty by Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., in the offset process,
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (August 14, 1997).
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Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
September 12, 1997
Object number
1998.2008.683
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (multicolored); adhesive / lithography
Place
United States of America
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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Music & Musicians
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_1998.2008.683