32c Kwanzaa single
Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued a 32-cent Kwanzaa stamp on October 22, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. The stamp features the seven symbols used to celebrate the seven principles that are the foundation of Kwanzaa.
- The stamp is the second in the Holiday Celebrations Series. The Holiday Celebrations Series was begun in 1996 to reflect a different cultural or ethnic holiday each year. The first stamp in the series was the Hanukkah stamp on October 22, 1996.
- Designed and illustrated by Synthia Saint James of Los Angeles, California, the stamps were issued in self-adhesive panes of fifty and self-adhesive vendible booklets of fifteen. Avery-Dennison produced the stamps in the gravure process.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (September 25, 1997).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- October 22, 1997
- Object number
- 1998.2010.797
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored); self-adhesive / photogravure
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3175
- Topic
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Black Heritage
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1998.2010.797
