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The 17th stamp in the Distinguished Americans series honors pioneering business leader Katharine Graham (1917–2001). The first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Graham was a pivotal figure during turbulent moments in American history.
On June 14, 2022, in Washington, DC, the United States Postal Service ® will issue the Katharine Graham stamp (priced at the Non-denominated, 2-ounce Mail Rate). This stamp will go on sale nationwide, June 14, 2022, and must not be sold or canceled before the first-day-of-issue.
- Ernest E. Just, Phd 1916
- Lewis Hine, Ex 1904
- Katherine Dunham, Phb’36
- Enrico Fermi
- Carter G. Woodson, AB 1908, Am 1908
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
Issued in 1996, the stamp honoring Just is part of the USPS’s Black Heritage series. Just earned his UChicago doctorate while on a leave of absence as head of zoology at Howard University. He spent many summers with UChicago professor Frank Lillie, PhD 1894, at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and his research on marin...
Sociologist Hine is best known for his photographs of children working in factories and living in want. Those photos helped make the public aware of (and subsequently horrified by) child labor, an early step toward legal reform (see “Bodies of Work”). Hine’s images of industrial workmen and of immigrants are also celebrated. A dedicated chronicler ...
On National Dance Day in 2012, the USPS released the Innovative Choreographers stamp series honoring Dunham alongside fellow dance legends Isadora Duncan, José Limón, and Bob Fosse. Dunham’s career in dance was deeply informed by her studies in anthropology at UChicago (see “Grace Notes”). The inventive work that resulted led her to Broadway and Ho...
In a photo taken in a UChicago classroom, professor of physics Enrico Fermi stands before a blackboard, chalk in hand, notebook in pocket, a genial expression on his face. The year is 1948 and the Nobelist has moved back from Los Alamos, New Mexico, to Chicago. That photo provided the basis for this illustrated stamp, adorned with a carbon atom in ...
Born to formerly enslaved people, Woodson worked in West Virginia coal mines as a young man before graduating from Berea College in Kentucky and then earning a second bachelor’s and a master’s degree at UChicago. Known as the father of Black history, Woodson insisted on its importance and persuaded Americans of the same. The Black History Month we ...
When Goeppert Mayer received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, she became the second woman to earn the honor, the first in 60 years, and one of four ever. Goeppert Mayer worked briefly on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos before moving to Chicago in 1946. While employed by the University’s Institute for Nuclear Studies and by Argonne...
May 12, 2022 · The U.S. Postal Service honors Katharine Graham (1917–2001) as the first female head of a Fortune 500 company and a pivotal figure during turbulent moments in U.S. history with the 17th stamp in the Distinguished Americans series.
The USPS stamp honoring Katharine Graham, AB’38, was unveiled in the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress on June 14, 2022. (All images courtesy the US Postal Service)
Jun 14, 2022 · Honor a brilliant businessperson and publisher with this new Katharine Graham Stamp Ceremony Memento. This new collectible contains the First Day of Issue Ceremony Invitation, the First Day of Issue Ceremony Program, a Digital Color Postmark First Day Cover, and a pane of 20 Katharine Graham Forever® stamps.
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Jun 16, 2022 · WASHINGTON — A brilliant businessperson and publisher whose leadership helped elevate The Washington Post to national prominence, Katharine Graham today became the 17th honoree in the Distinguished Americans stamp series from the U.S. Postal Service.
