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The first stamp issue of the U.S. was offered for sale on July 1, 1847, in New York City, with Boston receiving stamps the following day and other cities thereafter. They consisted of an engraved 5-cent red brown stamp depicting Benjamin Franklin (the first postmaster of the U.S.), and a 10-cent value in black with George Washington .
Wayzgoose Press is an independent private press founded in 1986 by Michael Hudson (1939–2021) and Jadwiga Jarvis (1947–2021).. Established in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia and operational until 2021, the press produced over 20 handprinted limited edition books, around 50 limited edition broadside posters, countless short-run ephemera including printed keepsakes, and contributions to ...
This gray brown 6-cent sheet stamp was issued on January 28, 1966, at the Post Office in Hyde Park, New York, the town where the family home is located. On January 30, 1982, on the 100th anniversary of his birth a 20-cent commemorative stamp honoring Roosevelt was issued, first released to the public at his birthplace, Hyde Park, New York.
The catalogue provides more detail than Volume One, with particular emphasis on varieties and errors. A new edition of the catalogue is produced annually with a particular edition year date generally indicating production in the middle of the previous year. Biannual Valuing Supplements are also issued in the Spring and Fall.
Moved to New York in 1860, wrote patriotic songs in declining career. [73] 1940 issue. Susan B. Anthony before the war and during, was an agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society of New York. Subsequently she was an advocate for freedman suffrage in the 15th Amendment and sought to have it extended to women.
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The New York Post was established in 1801 making it the oldest daily newspaper in the U.S. [147] However it is not the oldest continuously published paper; as the New York Post halted publication during strikes in 1958 and in 1978. If this is considered, The Providence Journal is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the U.S. [148]
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0-312-20587-2. Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. ISBN 0-312-26268-X. Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World. New York: Broadway, 2002. ISBN 0-7679-0836-8.