1940, Famous Americans Postage Stamps

In 1940, the U.S. Post Office issued a set of 35 stamps, issued over the course of approximately ten months, commemorating America's famous Authors, Poets, Educators, Scientists, Composers, Artists and Inventors. -- Wikipedia

Contents Thumbnails Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper Ralph Waldo Emerson Louisa May Alcott Samuel Clemens Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier James Russell Lowell Walt Whitman James Whitcomb Riley Horace Mann Mark Hopkins Charles Eliot Frances Willard Booker T. Washington John James Audubon Crawford Long Luther Burbank Walter Reed Jane Addams Stephen Collins Foster John Philip Sousa Victor Herbert Edward MacDowell Ethelbert Nevin Gilbert Stuart James Whistler Augustus Saint-Gaudens Daniel Chester French Frederic Remington Eli Whitney Samuel Morse Cyrus McCormick Elias Howe Alexander Graham Bell

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