Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued a 25-cent commemorative stamp saluting the centennial of North Dakota statehood on February 21, 1989, in Bismarck, North Dakota. North Dakota became the thirty-ninth state of the Union, entering on November 2, 1889.
- Renowned western landscape artist Wendell Minor made his philatelic design debut with this commemorative stamp. Working from photographs provided by the North Dakota Historical Society, Minor's design features a grain elevator rising above a golden prairie. An empty buckboard stands in the foreground, and, in the distant horizon, billowing white clouds rise into a pale blue sky.
- The design suggests the strength and sustenance North Dakotans drew form the land, which nurtured thousands of immigrants seeking independence and security.
- The stamps were printed in the photogravure process by the American Bank Note Company and issued in panes of fifty.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (January 19, 1989).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- February 21, 1989
- Object number
- 1993.2070.173
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored); adhesive / photogravure
- Place
- North Dakota
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 2403
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Food & Agriculture
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1993.2070.173
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm89dadb487-055d-4d99-9e75-669e26ee6b9f
