Object Details
- Printer
- Ashton-Potter USA (Ltd)
- Description
- The Celebrate The Century: 1940s souvenir sheet was issued on February 18, 1999, at Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia. The sheet went on sale nationwide the same day.
- Designed by Carl Herrman of Laguna Niguel, California, and illustrated by Howard Koslow of Toms River, New Jersey, the souvenir sheet features 1940s subjects from the following categories: People and Events, Arts and Entertainment, Lifestyles, Sports, and Science and Technology. The fifteen commemorative stamps in this sheet are titled: World War II; Antibiotics Save Lives; Jackie Robinson; President Harry S. Truman; Women Support War Effort; TV Entertains America; Jitterbug Sweeps Nation; Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism; GI Bill 1944; Big Band Sound; International Style of Architecture; Postwar Baby Boom; Slinky Craze Begins 1945; "A Streetcar Named Desire," Broadway Hit 1947; and Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane."
- Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., produced the stamps in the offset/ intaglio process.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (January 28, 1999).
- mint
- Issued February 18, 1999
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- February 18, 1999
- Object number
- 2000.2020.69
- 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
- New York
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3186c
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Sports
- Black Heritage
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2000.2020.69
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8e643e458-6037-426f-bfd9-07810616a7f3
