Article January 23, 1902 Issue

Portraits on Postage Stamps

If President McKinley's portrait is put on one of the postage stamps of this country, as dispatches from Washington have said is likely to be done in case the Postoffice Department brings out a new issue, his portrait will be the ninth of a President to be used in that way, says the New York Sun.

As the regular series of stamps, excluding the Columbian, Trans-Mississippi, and Pan-American exposition issues, has now been in circulation with only slight changes in watermarks and the like since 1890, a change of some sort is expected soon by philatelists.

Ever since Uncle Sam's postoffice began making stamps in 1847 or thereabouts, the face of Washington has appeared on one of the stamps in every regular issue, and with a single exception on a stamp of low value and general use. Benjamin Franklin's face has always adorned postage stamps of low value, and has thus become familiar to people who have sent or received letters ever since 1847.

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