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The beautiful Carmel Mission church has appeared on more than one US Postage stamp over the years. The US Postal Service issued a $18.95 Express Mail definitive stamp in February, 2012. The illustration features the dome-shaped bell tower and the elaborate star-shaped window of the Mission San Carlos Borroméo del Río Carmelo. (Scott 4650)

A 6¢ commemorative stamp "California Settlement" also featuring the bell tower of the Carmel Mission was issued by the Post Office Department in July, 1969. The stamp marked the 200th anniversary of the settlement of California as well as the bicentennial of the city of San Diego. (Scott 1373).
                   
                            Carmel Mission                                   California Settlement
 

I love the one on the left!

"Cross Creek: This site was the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, (1896–1953), the author of many major literary works, including The Yearling, which received the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the novels South Moon Under, and Golden Apples, and her memoir, Cross Creek. She was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Letters."[1]

"In 1928, the Rawlingses purchased a 72 acre orange grove near Hawthorne, Florida, in a hamlet named Cross Creek for its location between Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake. She brought the place to international fame through her writing. She was fascinated with the remote wilderness and the lives of Cross Creek residents, her Cracker neighbors (descendants of pioneer settlers), and felt a profound and transforming connection to the region and the land. Wary at first, the local residents soon warmed to her and opened up their lives and experiences to her. Marjorie filled several notebooks with descriptions of the animals, plants, Southern dialect, and recipes and used these descriptions in her writings."—Wikipedia
 
In 2008, the US Postal Service unveiled a
stamp bearing Rawlings' image, in her honor,
at her Cross Creek home. (Scott 4223)

 
Rear of Main House – Then and Now (25 years later)

This photograph depicts the Rear of the Main House - showing a kitchen wing. A wash stand has been set up outside the rear kitchen wing.

"Rear of Main House - showing kitchen wing (2008)" by Baesel


 
"View showing the rear home (c.1985)" by Randall Prophet


 
There's more: Join a Flickr Group dedicated to:
Cross Creek: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings !
 

Maria Goeppert-Mayer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goeppert-Mayer nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/mayer-...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Just walking, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Your Walking-picture is really interesting! Gratulations!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Heroines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Maria Goeppert Mayer was honored in the third volume of the American Scientists collection of US postage stamps, in June, 2011. The stamp is one in a series that honors Americans who have made extraordinary contributions to science. Mayer was one of only two women to ever win the Nobel Prize in physics—the other was Marie Curie.

The stamp combines images from the University of California San Diego’s Mandeville Special Collections Library, and includes photographs of Maria Goeppert Mayer and her signature. Also included is part of a chart of the elements and isotopes with "magic numbers," from an article Mayer published in Scientific American in 1951; and a schematic diagram of nuclear shell levels, from Mayer and Jensen’s Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure. (Scott 4543).

                             
                                            Maria Goeppert Mayer