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  • Black Mallards

    Series: Federal Duck Stamp

    First Day of Issue Date: January 1, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: TBA

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  • James Fenimore Cooper

    Series: Famous Americans: Authors

    First Day of Issue Date: January 29, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Cooperstown, NY

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  • Washington Irving

    Series: Famous Americans: Authors

    First Day of Issue Date: January 29, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Tarrytown, NY

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  • Louisa May Alcott

    Series: Famous Americans: Authors

    First Day of Issue Date: February 5, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Concord, Massachusetts

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Series: Famous Americans: Authors

    First Day of Issue Date: February 5, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Boston, Massachusetts

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  • Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)

    Series: Famous Americans: Authors

    First Day of Issue Date: February 13, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Hannibal, Missouri

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  • Henry W. Longfellow

    Series: Famous Americans: Poets

    First Day of Issue Date: February 16, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Portland, Maine

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  • John Greenleaf Whittier

    Series: Famous Americans: Poets

    First Day of Issue Date: February 16, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Haverhill, Massachusetts

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  • James Russell Lowell

    Series: Famous Americans: Poets

    First Day of Issue Date: February 20, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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  • Walt Whitman

    Series: Famous Americans: Poets

    First Day of Issue Date: February 20, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Camden, NJ

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  • James Whitcomb Riley

    Series: Famous Americans: Poets

    First Day of Issue Date: February 24, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Greenfield, Indiana

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  • Horace Mann

    Series: Famous Americans: Educators

    First Day of Issue Date: March 14, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Boston, Massachusetts

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  • Mark Hopkins

    Series: Famous Americans: Educators

    First Day of Issue Date: March 14, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts

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  • Charles W. Eliot

    Series: Famous Americans: Educators

    First Day of Issue Date: March 28, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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  • Frances E. Willard

    Series: Famous Americans: Educators

    First Day of Issue Date: March 28, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Evanston, Illinois

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  • Pony Express

    First Day of Issue Date: April 3, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: TBA

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  • Booker T. Washington

    Series: Famous Americans: Educators

    First Day of Issue Date: April 7, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Tuskegee Institute, Alabama

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  • Dr. Crawford W. Long

    Series: Famous Americans: Scientists

    First Day of Issue Date: April 8, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Jefferson, Georgia

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  • John James Audubon

    Series: Famous Americans: Scientists

    First Day of Issue Date: April 8, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: St. Francisville, Louisiana

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  • Pan American Union

    First Day of Issue Date: April 14, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: TBA

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  • Dr. Walter Reed

    Series: Famous Americans: Scientists

    First Day of Issue Date: April 17, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Washington, DC

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  • Luther Burbank

    Series: Famous Americans: Scientists

    First Day of Issue Date: April 17, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Santa Rosa, California

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  • Jane Addams

    Series: Famous Americans: Scientists

    First Day of Issue Date: April 26, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Chicago, Illinois

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  • John Philip Sousa

    Series: Famous Americans: Composers

    First Day of Issue Date: May 3, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Washington, DC

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  • Stephen Collins Foster

    Series: Famous Americans: Composers

    First Day of Issue Date: May 3, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Bardstown, Kentucky

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  • Edward A. MacDowell

    Series: Famous Americans: Composers

    First Day of Issue Date: May 13, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Peterborough, NH

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  • Victor Herbert

    Series: Famous Americans: Composers

    First Day of Issue Date: May 13, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: New York, NY

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  • Ethelbert Nevin

    Series: Famous Americans: Composers

    First Day of Issue Date: June 10, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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  • Idaho

    Series: Statehood

    First Day of Issue Date: July 3, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Boise, ID

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  • Wyoming

    Series: Statehood

    First Day of Issue Date: July 10, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Cheyenne, WY

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  • Gilbert Charles Stuart

    Series: Famous Americans: Artists

    First Day of Issue Date: September 5, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Narragansett, RI

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  • James A. McNeill Whistler

    Series: Famous Americans: Artists

    First Day of Issue Date: September 5, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Lowell, Massachusetts

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  • Coronado

    First Day of Issue Date: September 7, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: TBA

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  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens

    Series: Famous Americans: Artists

    First Day of Issue Date: September 16, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: New York, NY

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  • Daniel Chester French

    Series: Famous Americans: Artists

    First Day of Issue Date: September 16, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Stockbridge, Massachusetts

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  • Frederic Remington

    Series: Famous Americans: Artists

    First Day of Issue Date: September 30, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Canton, NY

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  • Eli Whitney

    Series: Famous Americans: Inventors

    First Day of Issue Date: October 7, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Savannah, Georgia

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  • Samuel F.B. Morse

    Series: Famous Americans: Inventors

    First Day of Issue Date: October 7, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: New York, NY

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  • Cyrus Hall McCormick

    Series: Famous Americans: Inventors

    First Day of Issue Date: October 14, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Lexington, Virginia

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  • Elias Howe

    Series: Famous Americans: Inventors

    First Day of Issue Date: October 14, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Spencer, Massachusetts

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  • 90mm Anti-aircraft Gun

    Series: Win the War

    First Day of Issue Date: October 16, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Washington, DC

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  • Statue of Liberty

    Series: Win the War

    First Day of Issue Date: October 16, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Washington, DC

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  • Torch of Enlightenment

    Series: Win the War

    First Day of Issue Date: October 16, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Washington, DC

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  • Thirteenth Amendment

    First Day of Issue Date: October 20, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: TBA

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  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Series: Famous Americans: Inventors

    First Day of Issue Date: October 28, 1940

    First Day of Issue Location: Boston, Massachusetts

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