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4c Employ the Handicapped single
Object Details
- Description
- This Employ the Handicapped Issue stamp promotes the employment of the physically handicapped and publicized the Eighth World Congress of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples in New York City. The meeting was sponsored by the President’s Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped and was attended many in the medical field, including doctors, nurses and therapists. The stamp features an image of a man in a wheelchair operating a drill press.
- United States; handicap; wheelchair; employment; job; medicine; man; drill
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- August 28, 1960
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5330
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (dark blue); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1155
- Topic
- Humanitarian Causes
- Organizations & Associations
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5330
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- Usage conditions apply
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