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Kids! You can participate in a great project and earn 100 FREE U.S. Stamps for contributing an article about one of the 35 Famous Americans honored by the United States Post Office in the Famous Americans Series of 1940.

Your article will be included in a webpage on the Internet.

1. Pick one of the Famous Americans from the list below;
2. Write a report about why the person is famous (at least 250 words)
3. Send the report by EMAIL, or mail your report to:

   Cancel Nations Stamp Company
   P.O. Box 900886
   San Diego, CA 92190-0886
   

4. Enjoy adding a FREE Packet of 100 U.S. Stamps to your collection
5. Your article will become part of the PHILATELIC SUPERSITE Library of Great Stamp Articles.

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Do you know who these famous Americans are and why they are famous?

In 1940 the United States Postal Service undertook a stamp program on a scale which had not been done before. And with shades of today's Celebrate the Century, honorees were chosen mainly through a poll conducted by the National Federation of Stamp Clubs.

Printed Rotary Process-Intaglio in sheets of 70 perforated 10-1/2 X 11. The stamps are 85/100 by 98/100 inch in dimension.

AUTHORS		POETS		EDUCATORS
Washington Irving		Henry Wardsworth Longfellow		Horace Mann
James Fennemore Cooper		John Greenleaf Whittier		Mark Hopkins
Ralph Waldo Emerson		James Russell Lowell		Charles W. Eliot
Louisa May Alcott		Walt Whitman		Frances E. Willard
Mark Twain		James Whitcomb Riley		Booker T. Washington

SCIENTISTS		COMPOSERS		ARTISTS		INVENTORS
John James Audubon		Stephen Foster		Gilbert Charles Stuart		Gilbert Eli Whitney Report #1 Gilbert Eli Whitney Report #2
Dr. Crawford W. Long		John Phillip Sousa		James A. McNeill Whistler		Samuel F.B. Morse
Luther Burbank		Victor Herbert		August Saint-Gaudens		Cyrus Hall McCormick
Dr. Walter Reed		Edward McDowell		Daniel Chester French		Elias Howe
Jane Addams		Ethelbert Nevin		Frederick Remington		Alexander Graham Bell

 
 

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