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Trans-Mississippi Issue (postage stamps)
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Trans-Mississippi_Issue_(postage_stamps)
GPTKB entity
Statements (51)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:post_office
gptkbp:color
issued as single color
originally planned as bi-color
gptkbp:date
June 17, 1898
gptkbp:denomination
$1
$2
$5
10 cents
5 cents
50 cents
1 cent
2 cents
4 cents
8 cents
gptkbp:designer
gptkb:Raymond_Ostrander_Smith
gptkbp:engravedWith
gptkb:William_H._Cottrell
gptkb:Douglas_S._Ronaldson
gptkb:Edward_M._Hall
gptkb:George_F._C._Smillie
gptkb:L._S._Schofield
gptkb:Marcus_W._Baldwin
gptkb:Robert_F._Ponickau
gptkb:William_B._Wells
William H. Haskell
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Trans-Mississippi Issue (postage stamps)
gptkbp:issuedBy
gptkb:post_office
gptkbp:locationOfExposition
gptkb:Omaha,_Nebraska
gptkbp:notableFor
considered among most beautiful U.S. stamps
gptkbp:notableStamp
gptkb:$1_Black_Bull_(Western_Cattle_in_Storm)
gptkb:$2_Mississippi_River_Bridge
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$5 Bridge at Council Bluffs
gptkbp:purpose
Commemorate the Trans-Mississippi Exposition
gptkbp:reasonForSingleColor
Spanish-American War cost and time constraints
gptkbp:reissued
1998
bi-color as originally intended
gptkbp:reissuePurpose
100th anniversary
gptkbp:subject
gptkb:American_West
gptkb:Native_Americans
gptkb:explorer
gptkb:livestock
gptkb:transportation
agriculture
bridges
farming
railroads
pioneers
frontier life
riverboats
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Trans-Mississippi_Exposition_(1898)
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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