4c Homestead Act single
Object Details
- Description
- This Homestead Act Issue stamp commemorated the centennial of the first Homestead Act in 1862. The act allowed settlers to claim a federal land grant of western property. To receive a clear title, the applicant must not have taken up arms against the United States, be 21 years old or the head of a household, pay a small filing fee and live on the land for at least five years and make improvements. The stamp features a homesteading couple by a sod hut.
- United States; Homestead Act; federal; land grant; title; deed; landscape; sod; hut; man; woman; agriculture
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- May 20, 1962
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5416
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (slate); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1198
- Topic
- Humanitarian Causes
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5416
