Object Details
- Description
- On June 11, 2009, in Washington, DC, the Postal Service issued the 44-cent Anna Julia Cooper commemorative stamp in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty stamps. Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland , designed the stamp.
- With the thirty-second stamp in its Black Heritage series, the USPS honored Anna Julia Cooper, an educator, scholar, feminist, and activist who gave voice to the African-American community during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from the end of slavery to the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. The stamp features a portrait of Cooper created by Kadir Nelson, San Diego, California, who based his painting on an undated photograph.
- A total of 125 million stamps were printed in the offset process with microprint "USPS" by Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU), Williamsville, New York.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin, May 7, 2009.
- unused
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- June 11, 2009
- Object number
- 2009.2029.373
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4408
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Black Heritage
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Women's Heritage
- Literature
- Education & Teaching
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2009.2029.373
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm82f1f83a8-942a-4dbb-b358-abf8a824f892
