Wayback Whensday: Herblock’s Bill of Rights Stamp (1966)

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1. Mike

   Thanks! I’ll let the Herblock foundation know you picked this up.

2. Mike

   Also, Sara Duke of the Library of Congress says the original sketches are in the Prints and Photos dept. there.

3. Eric

   United States

   According to Title 17 of the United States Code, the copyright status of stamps depends on when they were first issued.

   Before 1978
   Public domain In the public domain as a work of the federal government. Use {{PD-USGov}}
   1978 onward
   Copyrighted by the United States Postal Service after 1 January 1978 (the date on which the Copyright Act of 1976 went into effect).[32] Written permission is needed.

   you could have put an image of the stamp in question up on the site. It was from well before 1978

   1. D. D. Degg  (admin)

      We put a first day cover as the feature image to this item – https://www.dailycartoonist.com/ – and following the link to ComicsDC you will see color and b&W images of the stamp.

      1. Anne

         On your home page can see the postmark and the left edge of the stamp but not enough to have any idea of what the stamp looks like. Is the page just displaying the center square of a rectangular image?

         I’ll find the link to follow because I’d love to see what he did.

      2. D. D. Degg  (admin)

         Okay. Ya’ll convinced me to add a full-sized image of the stamp to the article.

4. Paul Berge

   Herblock mentions being commissioned to make the stamp in his memoir, A Cartoonist’s Life, only briefly (page 184). A picture of the stamp and a publicity photo of Herblock and Lawrence O’Brien together is included in the plates between pages 212 and 213. (Paperback edition)