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In 1898 the U.S. Post Office Department issued a set of nine commemorative postage stamps to mark the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha. The finely engraved stamps of the Trans-Mississippi Issue, or "Trans-Miss" or simply the "Omahas" for short, depict various scenes of the West and are today highly prized by collectors.
 
                               

                                           Western Cattle in Storm
 
                 United States 1-dollar stamp of 1898 Trans-Mississippi issue.
                 Known as the "Black Bull", this is often considered the finest
                 design ever seen on a US stamp. (Scott 292)

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Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams

Jane Addams was a social reformer, pacifist and women's rights activist who was most remembered as the founder of Hull House, one of the nation's first settlement houses which offered social, educational, and cultural opportunities to the large immigrant population of Chicago.

In 1931 she, together with Nicholas Murray Butler, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was the first American woman to receive a Nobel Prize. In 1940 this 10¢ stamp was issued in the Famous Americans Series – Scientists, to honor and commemorate her.   First Day ceremonies were held in Chicago on April 26, 1940. (Scott 878).

A 15-cent postal card in the Historic Preservation Series, marking the centennial of Hull House, was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in September, 1989. First Day ceremonies were held on September 16, 1989, at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum—part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (Scott UX134).

 
             
           Jane Addams, 1940                        Hull House Centennial, 1989
 

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

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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