3c Louisiana Purchase single
Object Details
- Description
- This Louisiana Purchase Issue stamp commemorated the 150th anniversary of the signing of the treaty agreement that purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This territory doubled the size of the United States; the area stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The stamp features James Monroe and James Livingston signing the treaty alongside the Marquis François de Barbé-Marbois, the French politician that negotiated the purchase.
- United States; Louisiana Territory; Louisiana Purchase; Mississippi; Rock Mountains; country; France; treaty; Thomas Jefferson; president
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- April 30, 1953
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5051
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Depicts
- Francois Marbois, French, 1745 - 1837
- James Monroe, American, 1758 - 1831
- Robert R. Livingston, American, 1746 - 1813
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (violet brown); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- Louisiana
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1020
- Topic
- Political Figures
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5051
