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#OTD in 1956: Labor Is Life
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‘Labor Day. Labor is life -Carlyle’
3-cent US postage stamp issued Sept. 3, 1956
Vignette designed by Victor S. McCloskey, Jr. of the Bureau of Engraving & Printing.
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‘The Post Office Department released a commemorative stamp honoring American workers — the "Labor Day" stamp — on September 3, 1956, at Camden, New Jersey. In 1894, Congress designated the first Monday in September as a federal holiday known as 'Labor Day.' In an unprecedented event, a dedication ceremony preceded the First Day Ceremony. Ceremonies took place in the White House Rose Garden on September 1, with President Eisenhower attending.
The 3-cent stamp paid the postage on a one-ounce first-class letter.’ Vignette ‘engraved by Richard M. Bower & Charles A. Brooks; frame, lettering & numeral by John S. Edmondson.’
References:
Glass, Sol. "Labor Day Issue," The Bureau Specialist 27 no. 11 (1956): 291.
Cleland, W. Wallace. Durland Standard Plate Number Catalog. Katy, Texas: United States Stamp Society, 2008.
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