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Unveiling Mark Twain Commemorative Stamp
Angels Camp, CA....Unveiling of the new Mark Twain Commemorative Stamp will take place this Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 10:00 am at The Angles Camp Museum located at 753 Main Street in Angles Camp CA 95222. With the 27th stamp in the Literary Arts series, the Postal Service honors Mark Twain, author of beloved works such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, widely considered one of the greatest novels in American literature. Art director and designer Phil Jordan used work by stamp artist Gregory Manchess, who based his portrait of Twain, in oil ......
paints on a board, on a photograph taken around 1907 by Underwood & Underwood of New York, now in the collection of the Library of Congress. The stamp background evokes several of Twain’s works set along the Mississippi River of his youth.
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