37c Barbara McClintock single

Object Details

Description

The Postal Service issued the 37-cent, American Scientists commemorative stamps in four designs on May 4, 2005, in New Haven, Connecticut. The stamps were designed by Victor Stabin of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

The stamps honor four American scientists: geneticist Barbara McClintock, mathematician John von Neumann, physicist Richard Feynman, and thermodynamicist Josiah Willard Gibbs.

For each stamp, artist Stabin created a collage featuring a portrait of the scientist and drawings that are associated with major contributions made by the scientist. Information about the specific elements in each collage is contained in the design briefs of the individual profiles on the back of each stamp. The Banknote Corporation of America, Inc., and Sennett Security Products printed 50 million stamps in the offset process with microprinting.

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (March 3, 2005).

unused

Credit line

Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.

May 4, 2005

Object number

2005.2021.27

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Title

Scott Catalogue USA 3906

National Postal Museum

Topic

Contemporary (1990-present)

Science

Women's Heritage

U.S. Stamps

Record ID

npm_2005.2021.27

Metadata Usage (text)

Usage conditions apply

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8a3cd672a-2017-4809-ba23-4015e435f1ee