Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued a 37-cent Henry Fonda commemorative stamp in a pressure- sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of twnety, on May 20, 2005, in Los Angeles, California. Derry Noyes of Washington, DC designed the stamp. Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., produced 65 million stamps in the offset process with microprinting "USPS."
- With the eleventh stamp in its Legends of Hollywood Series, the US Postal Service honored Henry Fonda (1905-1982), one of America's most popular actors, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Stamp artist Drew Struzan of Pasadena, California, based his portrait of Fonda on a photograph taken by Frank Powolny in 1941. For the selvage, art director Derry Noyes chose a photograph showing Fonda in his iconic performance as dispossessed farmer Tom Joad in the "Grapes of Wrath" (1940).
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (April 14, 2005).
- unused
- Credit line
- The Grapes of Wrath™ & © 1940, 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- May 20, 2005
- Object number
- 2005.2021.102
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3911
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Stars of Stage & Screen
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2005.2021.102
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm863ab4f8e-252a-45ad-8053-5965d78aaab4
