USA - 1898: An 5 cents dark blue postage stamp depicting portrait of Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant), American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War. Later, as president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who signed the bill that created the Justice Department and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction
US postage stamp of the last decade of the 19th century. This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image
Size: 3000px × 3400px
Location: United States of America
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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