Object Details
Printer
Ashton-Potter USA (Ltd)
Description
The Celebrate The Century: 1940s souvenir sheet was issued on February 18, 1999, at Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia. The sheet went on sale nationwide the same day.
Designed by Carl Herrman of Laguna Niguel, California, and illustrated by Howard Koslow of Toms River, New Jersey, the souvenir sheet features 1940s subjects from the following categories: People and Events, Arts and Entertainment, Lifestyles, Sports, and Science and Technology. The fifteen commemorative stamps in this sheet are titled: World War II; Antibiotics Save Lives; Jackie Robinson; President Harry S. Truman; Women Support War Effort; TV Entertains America; Jitterbug Sweeps Nation; Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism; GI Bill 1944; Big Band Sound; International Style of Architecture; Postwar Baby Boom; Slinky Craze Begins 1945; "A Streetcar Named Desire," Broadway Hit 1947; and Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane."
Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., produced the stamps in the offset/ intaglio process.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (January 28, 1999).
mint
Issued February 18, 1999
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
February 18, 1999
Object number
2000.2020.107
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (multicolor); adhesive
Dimensions
Height x Width: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3.02 × 3.02 cm)
Place
United States of America
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National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Contemporary (1990-present)
Stars of Stage & Screen
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_2000.2020.107