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Object Details
- Description
- Legends of the West
- 19 cent postal card
- multicolored
- Text on verso:
- Chief Joseph
- Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht
- "Thunder-traveling-to-loftier-heights"
- c.1840-1904
- Eloquent, noble Nez Perce chief whose brilliant tactics allowed his people to fight off the U. S. Army across several states.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- Issue date: 1994
- Object number
- 1996.2081.561
- Printer
- Art Litho Company, Baltimore, Maryland
- Depicts
- Chief Joseph, Native American (Nez Perce), 1840 - 1904
- Type
- Postal Stationery
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolor)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8.9 x 14cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2in.)
- Place
- United States of America
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- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA UX183
- Record ID
- npm_1996.2081.561
- Usage
- Not determined