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| United States Stamp - Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) - Issued March 28, 1940 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  United States Stamp - Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) - Issued March 28, 1940 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Postage Stamp Title: Charles W. Eliot Scott Cat. Number: 871 Subject: Eliot – Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) Design: William A. Roach (1888-1969) Engravers - Lettering: William B. Wells (1874-1942) and James T. Vail (1907-) Engraver – Portrait: Roberts - Gilroy Roberts (1905-1992) Engraver – Frame: Arlt - Carl Theodore Arlt (1883-1958) Media: Rotary Press Printer: United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Bright red violet Size: 1” x 1.0625” Country: United States Postage Value: 3 cents Issue Series: Famous American Educators Issue Origin: American educators Issue Date: March 28, 1940 Issue Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Issue Size: 51,636,270 The third group in the Famous Americans Series honors five American educators — Horace Mann, Mark Hopkins, Charles W. Eliot, Frances E. Willard, and Booker T. Washington. The issues appeared between March 14 and April 7, 1940. The five stamps were issued in the birth order of their honorees. The “Lamp of Knowledge” shown on the stamp was the symbol designated by the United States Postal Service to indicate an educator. [show more] |
| United States Stamp - Thornton Wilder - Issued April 17, 1997 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  United States Stamp - Thornton Wilder - Issued April 17, 1997 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Postage Stamp Title: Thornton Wilder Scott Cat. Number: 3134 Subject: Wilder – Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) Designer and Art Director: Phil Jordan, Falls Church, Virginia Artist: Michael Deas, New Orleans, Louisiana Typography: John Boyd, New York Modeler: Joseph Sheeran Media: Offset Lithography Printer: Ashton-Potter Ltd., USA Color: Black, cyan, magenta and yellow Size: 1.56 x 0.991” Country: United States Postage Value: 32 cents Issue Series: 14th in the Literary Arts Series Issue Origin: 100th Anniversary of Thornton Wilder’s birth. Issue Date: April 17, 1997 Issue Location: Hamden, Connecticut Issue Size: "The stamp features artist Michael Deas’s portrait of Wilder in the foreground, which is based on a photograph by Gisele Freund, a renowned photographer who is a former president of the Federation of French Art Photographers. The background comes from the artist’s imagination of a scene from Our Town, one of Wilder’s most well-known works." United States Post Office Postal Bulletin, PB 21941, March 13, 1997, p. 32. Artist, Michael Deas, was honored the second time by The Society of Illustrators for this design. They presented a gold medal to the USPS for this image and, the year before, for his portrayal of James Dean for that stamp. [show more] | |
| Canada Stamp - Pierre Dugua de Mons - 1604 - Issued June 26, 2004 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Canada Stamp - Pierre Dugua de Mons - 1604 - Issued June 26, 2004 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Engraved postage stamp. Artist - Suzanne Duranceau. Engraver - André Lavergne |
| United States Stamp - Jack London - Issued January 11, 1988 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  United States Stamp - Jack London - Issued January 11, 1988 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Postage Stamp Title: Jack London Scott Cat. Number: 2182 Subject: London - John Griffith London (1876-1916) Design: Richard Sparks of Norwalk, Connecticut, under the direction of Howard Paine, a design coordinator for the Citizens’ Advisory Committee. Artist – vignette: Sharpe - Jim Sharpe (1936-2005) Typographer: Bradbury Thompson Engraver - vignette: Hipschen – Thomas R. Hipschen (1950-) Engraver – lettering and numerals: Dennis Brown Media: Intaglio Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Blue Size: 18.03 mm x 20.82 mm Country: United States Postage Value: 25 cents Issue Series: 27th in the Great American Series Issue Origin: Jack London’s 110th birthday Issue Date: January 11, 1988 Issue Location: Glen Ellen, California – location of London’s Wolf House estate, now the Jack London State Historic Park. Issue Size: 59,850,000 Richard Sparks based his design on a photograph of London taken in 1914 by the author’s wife, Charmian. Kittredge – Charmian (Kittredge) London (1871-1955) See: "The Engraver’s Line: An Encyclopedia of Paper Money & Postage Stamp Art" by Gene Hessler, BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, 1993. Page 4 and 5 explain the production steps taken to turn original art into an engraved postage stamp. Worth reading as the engraver works from the beginning on a plate of about 3.5” x 4,” engraving a stamp at its finished size. Engraving is used for very few stamps today and, when one reads about the process, one can understand why. The author even provides particular engraver’s recipes for the acid they used, including that of James Smillie, the famous landscape engraver. Smillie - James Smillie (1807-1885). [show more] | |
| India Stamp - William Carey (1761-1834)- Issued January 9, 1993 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  India Stamp - William Carey (1761-1834)- Issued January 9, 1993 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Photogravure. |