Object Details
- Description
- The US Postal Service commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the completion of the Alaska Highway with the issue of a 29-cent commemorative stamp in Fairbanks, Alaska, on May 30, 1992. Construction on the 1500-mile Alaska Highway was begun by the US Army Corps of Engineers and other government agencies in March 1942 and completed in November of the same year.
- Designed by Byron Birdsall, the stamps were printed in offset/intaglio process by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and issued in panes of fifty.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (May 14, 1992).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- May 30, 1992
- Object number
- 1993.2015.264
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed; engraved
- Place
- Alaska
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 2635
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Cars & Trucks
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1993.2015.264
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8b4835a7d-dcfc-4c6a-850c-33e17832e9eb
