Behold, the first stamp USPS stamp issued in 2013, available today! I really enjoy its "broadside" look discussed below. 2013 is going to be a big year for civil rights in stamps with a Rosa Parks stamp as well as a stamp commemorating the 1963 March on Washington. No preview on that one yet, but here's one from 2005.
From Beyond the Perf:
With this 2013 stamp, the U.S. Postal Service commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln signed on January 1, 1863. Lincoln’s proclamation, issued nearly two years into the Civil War, declared that all slaves in the rebel states of the Confederacy “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
The stamp art uses that powerful statement, “Henceforward Shall Be Free,” on a design evocative of broadsides from the Civil War era.
Lincoln believed the Emancipation Proclamation, potentially applying to several million African-American slaves in the South, was the “central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century.” According to many historians, only the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States have had as great an impact on human life and liberty for so many.
my post office hasn't received theirs yet. grrrrr.
happy new year!
Posted by: the chronic utilitarian | January 03, 2013 at 04:15 PM