Re: Muybridge on U.S. stamp

[P3D Alexander Klein <klein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Michael Kaplan  <mkaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I've noticed a recent(?) stamp that portrays the great stereographer 
> Eadweard Muybridge. The stamp shows Muybridge's portrait against a 
> background of sequential views of a horse galloping.

This is part of 4 stamps @ 32 cents "Pioneers of Communication" issued by
the USPS on February 22nd, 1996. The other three stamps show Frederic
E. Ives (is this the guy with Ives' Kromoskop?), Ottmar Mergenthaler
(Linotype) and William Dickson (Motion Pictures).

> Does anyone know if other stereographers have been represented on postage 
> stamps? I have one of Harold Lloyd (if he counts). Is there one of Oliver 
> Wendell Holmes?

There was a 15 cent stamp showing Oliver Wendell Holmes. But I don't know
when it was issued. But maybe someone in the U.S. still knows when you
could send a letter or postcard for 15 cents?

Alexander Klein <klein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
3D-Magazin
Stuttgart, Germany


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