3c Samuel Gompers single
Object Details
- Description
- This Samuel Gompers Issue stamp features a portrait of Samuel Gompers. Gompers was an English-born American cigar maker and labor leader. He founded the American Federation of Labor, which helped secure more rights for workers, such as better wages, hours and working conditions, through collective bargaining.
- United States; Samuel Gompers; England; cigar; labor; union; rights; portrait
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- January 27, 1950
- Object number
- 1980.2493.4087
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Depicts
- Samuel Gompers, American, 1850 - 1924
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (bright red violet); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 988
- Topic
- Humanitarian Causes
- Organizations & Associations
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.4087
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