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1940 Famous Americans Series
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The stamps shown here are enclosed in protective covers -
they are not hinged or mounted on the page!
Each page includes five stamps which are part of the "Famous Americans" series
issued in 1940.
Scott # 859: Washington Irving
Scott # 860: James Fenimore Cooper
Scott # 861: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scott # 862: Louisa May Alcott
Scott # 863: Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
Scott # 864: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Scott # 865: John Greenleaf Whittier
Scott # 866: James Russell Lowell
Scott # 867: Walt Whitman
Scott $868: James Whitcomb Riley
Scott # 869: Horace Mann
Scott # 870: Mark Hopkins
Scott # 871: Charles W. Eliot
Scott # 872: Frances E. Willard
Scott # 873: Booker T. Washington
Scott # 874: John James Audubon
Scott # 875: Dr. Crawford W. Long
Scott # 876: Luther Burbank
Scott # 877: Walter Reed
Scott # 878: Jane Addams
Scott # 879: Stephen Collins Foster
Scott # 880: John Philip Sousa
Scott # 881: Victor Herbert
Scott # 882: Edward A. McDowell
Scott # 883: Ethelbert Nevin
Scott # 884: Gilbert Charles Stuart
Scott # 885: James A. McNeil Whistler
Scott # 886: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Scott # 887: Daniel Chester French
Scott # 888: Frederic Remington
Scott # 889: Eli Whitney
Scott # 890: Samuel Morse
Scott # 891: Cyrus Hall McCormick
Scott # 892: Elias Howe
Scott # 893: Alexander Graham Bell
Notice that each page is arranged in the same style, and even the stamp colors
are arranged so that the same color stamp goes in the same place on each page.
The pages include short paragraphs describing the depicted
individual.