Object Details
Printer
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Description
This Kansas Statehood Issue stamp commemorates the 100th anniversary of Kansas’s admission into statehood. The territory obtained statehood in 1861. The state was carved from the Kansas Territory, which was created and organized by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The act also essentially repealed the Missouri Compromise; it allowed the settlers of the land to determine if they would allow slavery in the new territory. Kansas chose to exclude slavery from the territory. The land was originally a part of the Louisiana Purchase. The stamp features an image of a sunflower (the state flower), as well as a pioneer couple standing in front of a stockade.
United States; Kansas; territory; state; statehood; centennial; pioneer; sunflower; flower; stockade; Louisiana Purchase; agriculture; man; woman
Date
May 10, 1961
Object number
1980.2493.5386
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (brown, dark red, green on yellow); adhesive / engraving
Place
Kansas
United States of America
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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Food & Agriculture
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_1980.2493.5386