Great Americans series
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The Great Americans series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service, starting in 1980 with a 19¢ stamp depicting Sequoyah, and continuing through 2002, the final stamp being the 78¢ Alice Paul self-adhesive stamp.
The basic design of the stamps has much in common with the predecessor Americana series and the contemporaneous transportation coils; the few elements consisting only of portrait, name, possibly occupation/notability, inscription "USA", and denomination, in a single color on a white background.
The range of subjects was much broader than the previous Prominent Americans series or Liberty Issue. Where the predecessors focused mainly on political figures, the subjects of the Great Americans series were well-known from a number of diverse fields and ethnicities. Only two presidents were subjects of the series: Thomas Jefferson and Harry Truman.
Stamps of the series, ordered by denomination:
- 1¢ Dorothea Dix
- 1¢ Margaret Mitchell
- 2¢ Igor Stravinsky
- 2¢ Mary Lyon
- 3¢ Henry Clay
- 3¢ Paul Dudley White, M.D.
- 4¢ Carl Schurz
- 4¢ Father Flanagan
- 5¢ Pearl Buck
- 5¢ Hugo Black
- 5¢ Luis Muñoz Marín
- 6¢ Walter Lippmann
- 7¢ Abraham Baldwin
- 8¢ Henry Knox
- 9¢ Sylvanus Thayer
- 10¢ Richard Russell
- 10¢ Red Cloud
- 11¢ Alden Partridge
- 13¢ Crazy Horse
- 14¢ Sinclair Lewis
- 14¢ Julia Ward Howe
- 15¢ Buffalo Bill Cody
- 17¢ Rachel Carson
- 17¢ Belva Lockwood
- 18¢ George Mason
- 19¢ Sequoyah
- 20¢ Ralph Bunche
- 20¢ Thomas H. Gallaudet
- 20¢ Harry Truman
- 20¢ Virginia Apgar
- 21¢ Chester Carlson
- 22¢ John J. Audubon
- 23¢ Mary Cassatt
- 25¢ Jack London
- 28¢ Sitting Bull
- 29¢ Earl Warren
- 29¢ Thomas Jefferson
- 30¢ Frank C. Laubach
- 32¢ Milton Hershey
- 32¢ Cal Farley
- 32¢ Henry R. Luce
- 32¢ Lila & DeWitt Wallace
- 35¢ Dennis Chavez
- 37¢ Robert Millikan
- 39¢ Grenville Clark
- 40¢ Claire Chennault
- 40¢ Lillian Gilbreth
- 45¢ Dr. Harvey Cushing, M.D.
- 46¢ Ruth Benedict
- 50¢ Chester W. Nimitz
- 52¢ Hubert Humphrey
- 55¢ Alice Hamilton, M.D.
- 55¢ Justin S. Morrill
- 56¢ John Harvard
- 65¢ H. H. "Hap" Arnold
- 75¢ Wendell Willkie
- 77¢ Mary Breckinridge
- 78¢ Alice Paul
- $1.00 Bernard Revel
- $1.00 Johns Hopkins
- $2.00 William Jennings Bryan
- $5.00 Bret Harte
