Recent Additions to our Stamp Library

Continuing the tradition of international cooperation that began with the first International Polar Year in 1882-1883, scientists from around the world will initiate a new era in polar research by participating in International Polar Year 2007-2008. Use t Catalog # 4204

Continuing the tradition of international cooperation that began with the first International Polar Year in 1882-1883, scientists from around the world will initiate a new era in polar research by participating in International Polar Year 2007-2008. Catalog # 4203

This stamp commemorates the Battle of Bunker Hill that took place June 17, 1775. While the British won the battle, they sustained their heaviest casualties of the war with 800 wounded and 228 killed. Catalog # 1034

Charles W. Chesnutt is recognized today as a major innovator and singular voice among turn-of-the-century literary realists who probed the color line in American life. Catalog # 4222

Dorothea Dix, an activist who served in the Civil War as Superintendent of Female Nurses, also worked for reform of treatment for the mentally ill. Catalog # 1844

Elizabeth Blackwell, born in Britain, was the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree. She founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and trained nurses in the American Civil War. Catalog # 1399

Appointed as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frances Perkins was the first woman appointed to a U.S. cabinet position. She helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. Catalog # 1821

Gerald Ford (1913-2006) was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974-1977 and also the fortieth Vice President serving from 1973-1974, becoming President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. Catalog # 4199

Pioneer aviator, Jacqueline Cochran, was considered one of the most gifted pilots of her generation. She made significant contributions to the formation of the wartime Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and Women Airforce Service Pilots. Catalog # 3066

Lucy Stone is known to women's history not only as one of the most important workers for suffrage and other women's rights in the 19th century and as a prominent abolitionist, but also as the first woman to keep her own name after marriage. Catalog # 1293