United States Postal Service (1971)

Organization

Dates

Existence: 1971
Usage: 1971

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

United States Postal Service Stamps Related to Georgia O'Keeffe

Collection

Identifier: MS-27

Overview United States Postal Service products related to the use of works by Georgia O'Keeffe on stamps. Stamps include Georgia O'Keeffe Red Poppy Commemorative Stamp featuring O'Keeffe's Red Poppy (1927) issued in 1996, and O'Keeffe's Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie's II (1930) that was part of the Modern Art in America, 1913-1931 stamp pane issued in 2013. Materials include first day of issue ceremony programs, first day covers, sheets of stamps, stamp yearbooks, and postal...

Dates: 1996, 2013

Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

More about 'United States Postal Service (1971)'

Related Names

United States. Post Office Department (1792-1971) (Later Form of Related)

Description

The United States Post Office Department was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service, in the form of a Cabinet department officially from 1872 to 1971. On March 18, 1970, postal workers in New York City—upset over low wages and poor working conditions, and emboldened by the Civil Rights Movement—organized a strike against the United States government. The strike ultimately allowed for postal worker unions and the government to negotiate a contract which gave the unions most of what they wanted, as well as the signing of the Postal Reorganization Act by President Richard Nixon on August 12, 1970. The Act replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with a new federal agency, the United States Postal Service, and took effect on July 1, 1971.

External Documents

LOD Equivalent

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Archives