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Famous Americans issue of United States

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Short desc: Famous Americans

Issuer: United States
Dates: 1/29/1940 - 10/28/1940


Consists of 35 stamps: (See stamps as list)

1c brtblgrn dt=authors (1940) d=Washington Irving
2/16/1940 1c brtblgrn dt=poets (1940) d=Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3/14/1940 1c brtblgrn dt=educators (1940) d=Horace Mann
4/8/1940 1c brtblgrn dt=scientists (1940) d=John James Audubon (1940)
5/3/1940 1c brtblgrn dt=composers (1940) d=Stephen Collins Foster
9/5/1940 1c brtblgrn dt=artists (1940) d=Gilbert Charles Stuart
10/7/1940 1c brtblgrn dt=inventors (1940) d=Eli Whitney
2c rosecar dt=authors (1940) d=James Fenimore Cooper
2/16/1940 2c rosecar dt=poets (1940) d=John Greenleaf Whittier
3/14/1940 2c rosecar dt=educators (1940) d=Mark Hopkins
4/8/1940 2c rosecar dt=scientists (1940) d=Crawford W. Long
5/3/1940 2c rosecar dt=composers (1940) d=John Philip Sousa
9/5/1940 2c rosecar dt=artists (1940) d=James A. McNeill Whistler
10/7/1940 2c rosecar dt=inventors (1940) d=Samuel Morse
3c brtredvio dt=authors (1940) d=Ralph Waldo Emerson
2/16/1940 3c brtredvio dt=poets (1940) d=James Russell Lowell
3/14/1940 3c brtredvio dt=educators (1940) d=Charles W. Eliot
4/8/1940 3c brtredvio dt=scientists (1940) d=Luther Burbank
5/3/1940 3c brtredvio dt=composers (1940) d=Victor Herbert
9/5/1940 3c brtredvio dt=artists (1940) d=Augustus Saint-Gaudens
10/14/1940 3c brtredvio dt=inventors (1940) d=Cyrus McCormick
5c ultra dt=authors (1940) d=Louisa May Alcott
2/16/1940 5c ultra dt=poets (1940) d=Walt Whitman (1940)
3/14/1940 5c ultra dt=educators (1940) d=Frances E. Willard
4/8/1940 5c ultra dt=scientists (1940) d=Dr. Walter Reed
5/3/1940 5c ultra dt=composers (1940) d=Edward A. MacDowell
9/5/1940 5c ultra dt=artists (1940) d=Daniel Chester French
10/14/1940 5c ultra dt=inventors (1940) d=Elias Howe
10c dkbrn dt=authors (1940) d=Samuel L. Clemens
2/16/1940 10c dkbrn dt=poets (1940) d=James Whitcomb Riley
3/14/1940 10c dkbrn dt=educators (1940) d=Booker T. Washington
4/8/1940 10c dkbrn dt=scientists (1940) d=Jane Addams
5/3/1940 10c dkbrn dt=composers (1940) d=Ethelbert Nevin
9/5/1940 10c dkbrn dt=artists (1940) d=Frederic Remington
10/28/1940 10c dkbrn dt=inventors (1940) d=Alexander Graham Bell (1940)

All are perf=10.5x11


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