Stamp-US-1970-Woman-Suffrage.png
Summary
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English:
Commemoration of the 1970 anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; the amendment was ratified in 1920 and provided for women's suffrage. Stamp collectors likely often refer to the stamp as U.S. Scott 1406.
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| Source | United States Postal Service or the predecessor postal agency of the U.S. government of the time |
| Author | Ward Brackett, designer |
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
Fair use or public domain (the stamp being from 1970, probably not copyrighted). < http://www.usps.com/rightsandpermissions/fair-use-exceptions.htm >, as accessed Apr. 27, 2011. Stamp and what appears on attached original paper (often known as selvage), unless in the public domain, but not subsequent enhancement, arrangement, and other work: © 1970 United States Postal Service. All rights reserved. (Reservation of rights is as asserted by the United States Postal Service.) I'm unaware of any copyright or other legal restriction on this stamp that does not apply to modern U.S. stamps generally. |
The design includes the words "WOMAN SUFFRAGE", "50 TH ANNIVERSARY", "1920-1970", "VOTES FOR WOMEN ", and "RIGHT TO VOTE". The left image in the stamp appears to represent part of a demonstration in or before 1920; among the women is one man, in the car driver's position. The right image appears to represent a modern ( ca. 1970) woman casting a vote at a lever-operated voting machine. The whole image was made from an actual mint stamp that I owned when I scanned it. An oblique line at the top left, across the "W", the line made from overlaying a thread, is for legal compliance for more flexibility with reproductions of a postage stamp. Scanning relied on Photoshop in Professional scanning mode on a Windows platform Apr. 27–28, 2011; settings included RGB rather than CMYK etc., 32 bits, 1200 pixel/inch, and 1200 dpi 24-bit; these data may seem self-contradictory but I think some was from Photoshop itself and the rest from the scanner driver. Subsequent file preparation was with Gimp 2.6.2 software on a Linux platform before uploading and did not include any modifications or repairs to the whole image; any image defects were left intact. Horizontality adjustment was not necessary and was not attempted due to a risk of lowering the resolution.
Licensing
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This work is in the
public domain
in the United States because it is a
work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties
under the terms of
Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105
of the
US Code
.
Note
: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual
U.S. state
,
territory
, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the
United States Postal Service
since 1978
. (See §
313.6(C)(1)
of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see
The US Mint Terms of Use
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