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3c Andrew W. Mellon single
Object Details
- Description
- This Andrew W. Mellon Issue stamp features a portrait of American businessman Andrew W. Mellon. Mellon was in 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He joined his father’s banking firm T. Mellon and Sons and later helped organize other banks in the Pittsburgh region. He aided and invested in some industrial organizations, including the Aluminum Company of America, the Gulf Oil Corporation, and the Union Steel Company. In the 1920s, he was ranked as one of the wealthiest people in the United States. Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Warren G. Harding in 1921 and continued to serve under Presidents Coolidge and Hoover.
- United States; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh; Andrew Mellon; finance; money; banker; businessman; industrialist; philanthropist; art collector; Secretary of Treasury; president; portrait
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- December 20, 1955
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5165
- Depicts
- Andrew William Mellon, American, 1855 - 1937
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (rose carmine); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1072
- Topic
- Political Figures
- Art & Photography
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5165
- Usage
- Usage conditions apply
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