Item	Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Publisher	Date	Place	Address	Description
12753	United States Stamp - Thornton Wilder - Issued April 17, 1997	Object, Stamp, Postage Stamp	People	Deas - Michael Deas Jordan - Phil Jordan		1997-04-17			Postage Stamp Title: Thornton Wilder Scott Cat. Number: 3134 Subject: Wilder – Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) Designer and Art Director: Phil Jordan, Falls Church, Virginia Artist: Michael Deas, New Orleans, Louisiana Typography: John Boyd, New York Modeler: Joseph Sheeran Media: Offset Lithography Printer: Ashton-Potter Ltd., USA Color: Black, cyan, magenta and yellow Size: 1.56 x 0.991” Country: United States Postage Value: 32 cents Issue Series: 14th in the Literary Arts Series Issue Origin: 100th Anniversary of Thornton Wilder’s birth. Issue Date: April 17, 1997 Issue Location: Hamden, Connecticut Issue Size: "The stamp features artist Michael Deas’s portrait of Wilder in the foreground, which is based on a photograph by Gisele Freund, a renowned photographer who is a former president of the Federation of French Art Photographers. The background comes from the artist’s imagination of a scene from Our Town, one of Wilder’s most well-known works." United States Post Office Postal Bulletin, PB 21941, March 13, 1997, p. 32. Artist, Michael Deas, was honored the second time by The Society of Illustrators for this design. They presented a gold medal to the USPS for this image and, the year before, for his portrayal of James Dean for that stamp.	United States Stamp - Thornton Wilder - Issued April 17, 1997 Item: 12753    Type: Object, Stamp, Postage Stamp Subject: People Creator: Deas - Michael Deas Jordan - Phil Jordan Date: 1997-04-17 Description: Postage Stamp Title: Thornton Wilder Scott Cat. Number: 3134 Subject: Wilder – Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) Designer and Art Director: Phil Jordan, Falls Church, Virginia Artist: Michael Deas, New Orleans, Louisiana Typography: John Boyd, New York Modeler: Joseph Sheeran Media: Offset Lithography Printer: Ashton-Potter Ltd., USA Color: Black, cyan, magenta and yellow Size: 1.56 x 0.991” Country: United States Postage Value: 32 cents Issue Series: 14th in the Literary Arts Series Issue Origin: 100th Anniversary of Thornton Wilder’s birth. Issue Date: April 17, 1997 Issue Location: Hamden, Connecticut Issue Size: "The stamp features artist Michael Deas’s portrait of Wilder in the foreground, which is based on a photograph by Gisele Freund, a renowned photographer who is a former president of the Federation of French Art Photographers. The background comes from the artist’s imagination of a scene from Our Town, one of Wilder’s most well-known works." United States Post Office Postal Bulletin, PB 21941, March 13, 1997, p. 32. Artist, Michael Deas, was honored the second time by The Society of Illustrators for this design. They presented a gold medal to the USPS for this image and, the year before, for his portrayal of James Dean for that stamp. [show more]
12493	India Stamp - William Carey (1761-1834)- Issued January 9, 1993	Object, Stamp, Postage Stamp	People	Samanta - Shanka Samanta	Department of Posts, India	1993	India, Serampore		Photogravure.	India Stamp - William Carey (1761-1834)- Issued January 9, 1993 Item: 12493    Type: Object, Stamp, Postage Stamp Subject: People Creator: Samanta - Shanka Samanta Publisher: Department of Posts, India Date: 1993 Place: India, Serampore Description: Photogravure.

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