32c Margaret Mead single

Printer

Ashton-Potter USA (Ltd)

Depicts

Margaret Mead, American, 1901 - 1978

Description

The Postal Service issued the Celebrate The Century:1920s souvenir sheet on May 28, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois.

The souvenir sheet features subjects from the following categories during the 1920s: People and Events, Arts and Entertainment, Lifestyle, Sports, and Science and Technology. The fifteen commemorative stamps in this sheet are titled Babe Ruth, The Gatsby Style, Prohibition Enforced, Electric Toy Trains, 19th Amendment, Emily Post's Etiquette, Margaret Mead, anthropologist, Flappers Do The Charleston, Radio Entertains America, Art Deco Style, Jazz Flourishes, Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Lindbergh Flies Atlantic, American Realism, and Stock Market Crash 1929.

Designed by Carl Herrman of Laguna Niguel, California, and illustrated by Davis Meltzer of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, the stamps were issued and printed by Ashton-Potter USA in the offset/intaglio process.

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (April 23, 1998).

32-cent mint single

Issued May 28, 1998

Credit line

Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.

May 28, 1998

Object number

2000.2020.21

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (multicolor); adhesive

Dimensions

Height x Width: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3.02 × 3.02 cm)

Place

United States of America

Title

Scott Catalogue USA 3184g

National Postal Museum

Topic

Contemporary (1990-present)

Women's Heritage

Education & Teaching

Humanitarian Causes

U.S. Stamps

Record ID

npm_2000.2020.21

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8ed753a67-927f-41b4-a18f-e52c74a9dcc9