50c Susan B. Anthony single
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Object Details
- Date
- April 1958
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Depicts
- Susan B. Anthony, American, 1820 - 1906
- Description
- This Liberty Issue stamp depicts Susan B. Anthony. She was born in Adams, Massachusetts in 1820. Anthony became involved in the anti-slavery and temperance movements at an early age. Inspired by Lucy Stone’s closing speech at the first National Women’s Rights Convention, and after being introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony joined the women’s rights movement and championed women’s suffrage.
- United States; Massachusetts; Susan B. Anthony; Quaker; feminist; civil rights; leader; anti-slavery; temperance; Lucy Stone; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; women’s rights; equal rights; suffrage; vote; equality; portrait
- Place
- United States of America
- Topic
- Humanitarian Causes
- Organizations & Associations
- U.S. Stamps
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5119
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (bright purple); adhesive / engraving
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5119