Captions: Ethel Waters / popular singer, 1895-1977/ 29 / USA.
Scott Catalogue : U.S. #2851 29 cts Ethel Waters.
One of a set of five Popular Singer commemorative stamps issued by the United States Postal Service honoring five American music legends, issued on September 1, 1994, in New York at Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The stamps featured Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Ethel Waters, Nat "King" Cole, and Ethel Merman. The Popular Singers stamps were an addition to the Postal Service's Legends of American Music Stamp Series. Designed by Chris Fox Payne of Cincinnati, Ohio, the 29-cent stamps in panes of twenty were produced in the photogravure process by Stamp Venturers, Inc. Cf. the online catalog of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, object no. 1995.2075.40.
James Fuld.
Payne, C. F., designer.
Fuld, James J., 1916-2008, former owner.