Object Details
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Description
- This Kansas Statehood Issue stamp commemorates the 100th anniversary of Kansas’s admission into statehood. The territory obtained statehood in 1861. The state was carved from the Kansas Territory, which was created and organized by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The act also essentially repealed the Missouri Compromise; it allowed the settlers of the land to determine if they would allow slavery in the new territory. Kansas chose to exclude slavery from the territory. The land was originally a part of the Louisiana Purchase. The stamp features an image of a sunflower (the state flower), as well as a pioneer couple standing in front of a stockade.
- United States; Kansas; territory; state; statehood; centennial; pioneer; sunflower; flower; stockade; Louisiana Purchase; agriculture; man; woman
- May 10, 1961
- Object number
- 1980.2493.5386
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (brown, dark red, green on yellow); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- Kansas
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1183
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Food & Agriculture
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.5386
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8ae2ec053-99cb-40d8-964c-8c061ebf24cd
