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Uncle Sam Starts a New Year With a Presidential Stamp Series
The article describes the U S Post Office new Presidential series stamps from Washington to Coolidge with values from 1 cent to 50 cents. It notes which presidents appear, which portraits are moved, and the inclusion of Franklin and Martha Washington, along with other commemoratives issued in 1938 and planned for 1939. It also mentions the rarity of certain portraits and lists other historical figures featured on earlier stamps and the four women who have appeared on U S stamps.
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Uncle Sam
Samuel
Post Office Department
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
National
United States
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Martin van Buren
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
Chester Alan Arthur
Calvin Coolidge
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Alexander Hamilton
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
William H.seward
John Marshal
Robert Livingston
Edwin M. Stanton
Winfield Scott
Oliver Hazard Perry
William Tecumseh Sherman
David G. Farragut
Nathan Hale
Christopher Columbus
Balboa
Capt
John Smith
John Ericson
Herbert Hoover
Benjamin Franklin
Martha Washington
Franklin
White House
Washington
Harrison
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Del
San Francisco
Federal Hall
New York City
New York
Panama Canal
The
Land
Isabella
Spain
John Rolfe
Virginia
Jamestown
Molly Pitcher
Monmouth
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston
Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison
Edith Kermit Carew Roosevelt
Helen Herron Taft
Edith