Item no. C212 (cancel)

Type: cancel

Country: USA

Date of issue and use: 7 April 1940

Special cancel on FDCover with the stamp honoring Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915), African-American educator, author, civil rights leader and teacher at the TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (Alabama, USA), one of the universities George Eastman supported financially for years.