37c "Looking for Lost Luggage, Ellis Island" single
Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued twenty 37-cent Masters of American Photography commemorative stamps on June 13, 2002, in San Diego, California. The pane of twenty stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, went on nationwide June 14, 2002.
- The Masters of American Photography Issue honors twenty of our country's most important and influential photographers and includes examples of portrait, documentary, landscape, and fine art photography. Many of the major themes and events in US history, immigration, the Great Depression, and World War II, are captured in these compelling black-and-white stamp art images.
- Sennett Security Products printed 60 million stamps in the gravure process.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (May 16, 2002).
- This Masters of American Photography Issue stamp features the photograph "Looking for Lost Luggage, Ellis Island" by Lewis W. Hine. The black and white photograph depicts four immigrants (three children and an older woman) with luggage at Ellis Island, New York.
- United States; Ellis Island; New York; photography; immigration; woman; children
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- June 13, 2002
- Object number
- 2003.2007.27
- Photographer
- Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874 - 1940
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / photogravure
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 1 15/16 × 1 1/4 in. (4.92 × 3.18 cm)
- Place
- New York
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3649e
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Art & Photography
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2003.2007.27
