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Stamp Notes by John M. Hotchner

Over the years, I have made an effort to collect information about and report instances of living people being portrayed on United States stamps.

The history of women on US stamps begins in , when Queen Isabella became the first woman on a US stamp.

CHICAGO — Author and former postal employee Richard Wright will be immortalized on a First-Class stamp tomorrow in the lobby of the Chicago.

Contains capsule biographies of every person portrayed on a U.S. stamp between and Some of the more than alphabetically arranged biographies.

Little is known about Cabrillo's early years.

Washington Irving is the author featured on the first “Famous Americans” stamp, U.S. # Irving was most famous for writing “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and.

There are more than 75 stamps in this category. All of them arguably contravene the 1866 statute that provides “That no portrait or likeness of any living person hereafter engraved, shall be placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, fractional or postal currency of the United States.”

This provision has not been repealed, but the U.S.

Postal Service has long maintained that it intends to prohibit the honoring of living people and that the USPS is free to portray identifiable living people if they are incidental to the event being commemorated or if images used are based on models.

In fact the Postal Service instructs artists that they must alter the features of models used in stamp art. Sometimes they have complied; other t