5c Henry David Thoreau single

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Object Details

Printer

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Depicts

Henry David Thoreau, American, 1817 - 1862

Description

This Henry David Thoreau Issue stamp depicts Henry David Thoreau, an American author, poet and philosopher. Born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817, Thoreau is best known for his writings as part of the Transcendentalism movement, a philosophical view regarding nature, the individual and spirituality. Thoreau was also an abolitionist and naturalist.

United States; Massachusetts; Henry David Thoreau; transcendentalism; philosophy; religious; spiritual; movement; author; writer; poet; philosophy; abolitionist; naturalist; historian; simple; Ralph Waldo Emerson; civil disobedience; ethics; Walden Pond; portrait

Date

July 12, 1967

Object number

1980.2493.5637

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (red, black, green); adhesive; tagging / engraving

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Literature

U.S. Stamps

Metadata Usage

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Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8035cdfbd-5e7d-471d-a1f3-cf4ae122723d

Record ID

npm_1980.2493.5637