4c Workmen's Compensation Law single

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Object Details

Printer

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Description

This Workmen’s Compensation Issue stamp commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first successful Workmen’s Compensation Law, enacted by the Wisconsin legislature. It is a form of insurance that deals with the right of working people to receive compensation for personal injury while on the job. It was upheld by the Supreme Court. The stamp features an image of the scales of justice, with a factory and a family in each scale.

United States; Wisconsin; worker; job; employment; compensation; insurance; injury; legislature; law; act; Supreme Court; man; woman; child; justice; scales

Date

September 4, 1961

Object number

1980.2493.5392

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (ultramarine); adhesive / engraving

Place

United States of America

Wisconsin

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Humanitarian Causes

U.S. Stamps

Metadata Usage

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Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8a41904f9-3fac-4ce6-9fca-36272945e8ff

Record ID

npm_1980.2493.5392