3c Francis Parkman vertical coil single
Object Details
- Description
- This Prominent Americans Issue stamp depicts Francis Parkman, an American writer and historian. Parkman developed a love for the wilderness as a child. As a young man, he traveled through Europe and the American West. His most well-known works include “The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life” and a seven-volume history of European colonization entitled “France and England in North America.”
- United States; Francis Parkman; writer; author; historian; forest; horticulture; wilderness; travel; illness; Europe; west; American Indians; Native Amercans; France; England; North America; coil; vertical; portrait
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- November 4, 1975
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5579
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Depicts
- Francis Parkman, American, 1823 - 1893
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (violet); adhesive; tagging / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1297
- Topic
- Literature
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5579
