Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued a 37-cent, Yip Harburg commemorative stamp on April 28, 2005, in New York, New York. Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland, designed the stamp. The Banknote Corporation of America, Inc., and Sennett Security Products printed 40 million stamps in the offset process with microprinting "USPS."
- With this stamp, the Postal Service honored E.Y. (Yip) Harburg, who wrote the lyrics for more than 600 popular songs, including "Over the Rainbow," created with composer Harold Arlen for "The Wizard of Oz." Stamp designer Ethel Kessler began with a photograph made by portrait photographer Barbara Bordnick in 1978 in her studio in New York. She then added other elements including a rainbow and the lyric fragment from Harburg's Oscar-winning song.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (March 17, 2005).
- unused
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- April 28, 2005
- Object number
- 2005.2021.14
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3905
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Stars of Stage & Screen
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Music & Musicians
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2005.2021.14
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8401dfaaf-9883-4d6b-997d-7fb5f1187881
