Type: stamp
Country: USA
Date of issue: 17 July 1989
Catalog number: Scott 2418
Stamp (single) honoring ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899 – 1961), American writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature. The stamp was issued on 90th anniversary of his birth and it presents a coloured portrait of the writer. The stamp design was based on a photographic portrait (originally monochrome) taken in 1957 by Canadian pohotographer YOUSUF KARSH (1908 – 2002).
Item no. S107 (stamp)