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New Yosemite postage stamp will debut Thursday at the park

Swing by the Yosemite Village Post Office at 10:30 a.m. Thursday and you will be able to get first-day cancellations of a new stamp featuring Yosemite National Park.

The 42-cent first-class stamp features Albert Bierstadt’s painting “Valley of the Yosemite.” Yosemite’s Postmaster Bill Carroll as well as park Superintendent Mike Tollefson will be on hand for the ceremony.

The original 1864 oil painting belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, according to a U.S. Postal Service release. The Yosemite stamp will be on sale nationwide starting Thursday — and also will be rolled out at the American Philatelic Society StampShow 2008 in Hartford, Connecticut.

Other artworks in the American Treasures series — this stamp is the eighth one — include Amish quilts, the quilts of Gee’s Bend and works by artist Mary Cassatt.

This is hardly Yosemite’s first time on a postage stamp. In 2006, a photo of the Gates of the Valley by the late Galen Rowell was turned into an 84-cent stamp that was then the international letter rate.

– Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times staff writer

[Images: U.S. Postal Service]

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3 Comments on “New Yosemite postage stamp will debut Thursday at the park”

Yosemite Indian Says:
August 13th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
The first stamp was painted by Albert Bierstadt is one of many he did in the Yosemite Valley. The German born artist painted many scenes in Yosemite. One was of a Yosemite Paiute Indian camp he did around 1872, which you can view by hitting the link. Albert Bierstadt was also photographed by the famous British photographer Eadweard Muybridge while he was painting a Paiute camp along the Merced River in middle of Yosemite Valley. As one of the true descendants of the original American Indian people, the Paiutes, it is a great honor to have our homeland immortalized on a stamp. The Paiutes are the true Ahwahneechees.
halisa street Says:
August 16th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
omg this is sooooo kewl! :DD
norma draughn Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
ARe those palm trees in the picture? Was our climate that different in 1884?