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restoration Of Williamsburg,
Va. should be remembered in
relation to the proposed series.
The Buffalo Museum Of Sci
ence and Albright Gallery Of
Art. the Corning Glass Center,
the New York State Museum
at Albany. the Rochester Mu-
scum Of Arts and Sciences and
the Syracuse Museum Of Fine
Arts are available for similar
recognition: and the same may
be said for the Cathedral of
Learning, the Carnegie Insti-
tute, the Mellon Institute and
the Buhl Planetarium in Pitts
burgh, the Delaware Art Gen.
ter and Library at Wilmington
and the Montclair and Newark
Museums Of New Jersey.
Among cultural enterprises
of the Middle West susceptible
of stamp portrayal the follow
ing may be mentioned: Cincin-
natl Art Museum, Cleveland
Museum of Art and Health
Museum, Toledo Museum of
Art, Indianapolis John Heron
Art Institute, Detroit Historical
Museum and Institute of Arts,
Dearborn Henry Ford Museum
and Greenfield Village, Chi
cago Art Institute, Adler Plan
etarium and Lincoln Park Zoo,
Newberry Library and Oriental
Institute; Minneapolis Walker
Art Center and Institute of
Arts, st. Louis City Art Mu-
scum, Kansas City, Mo-, Mel
son-Atkins Gallery of Art,
Omaha Joslyn Art Museum,
Davenport Public Museum and
Des Moines Art Center.
In the more remote West
cultural centers are prospering
by the dozens, a few of the
number being the Oklahoma
Historical Society Headquart-
ers at Oklahoma City. the
Texas Hall of State and Art
Gallery at Dallas, the Texas
Memorial Museum at Austin,
the Arizona State Museum at
Tucson, the Museum of New
Mexico and the Navajo Art
Museum at Santa Fe, the Colo
RADIO State Museum, Art Mu-
scum and Natural History Mu-
scum at Denver, the Crocker
Gallery at Sacramento, the
Museum of Art and the De-
Young and Legion of Honor
Galleries in San Francisco, the
County Museum of Art and
Griffith Observatory in Los
Angeles, the Huntington Lii
brary and Gallery at San
Marino, Calf. the Museum of
Natural History at Eugene.
Ore, and the Art Museum in
Seattle, Wash.
= OF course, not all of these
power houses" of American
culture could be embraced in
single sequence of stamps. Ten
or IL of the most significant of
them, however, would be feaS-
ible of representation, and
single adhesives could be issued
subsequently for notable occa-
sions. What specifically is
wanted as soon as possible is
a series affirming the cultural
ideals and activities Of the free
American community. Read
ers approving the proposal are
invited to send their indorse-
ments to Postmaster General
Arthur E. Summerfield.
Charles r. Chickering, Bu-
reau Of Engraving and Print
ing artist, designed the new
1-cent George Washington
stamp, placed on sale initially
at Chicago. August 26. and
the new 2-cent Thomas Jeffer-
son stamp, to be released at
San Francisco. September Is.
Charles A. Brooks and George
A. Payne engraved the die for
the former, Richard M. Bower,
John S. Edmondson and Mr..
Brooks that for the latter.
Representative Thomas j.
Dodd of Connecticut has writ
ten Postmaster General. Sum-
merfield in behalf Of the pro-
posed Nathan Hale stamp,
slated for issuance at Tor
rington on the patriot spy's
200th birthday anniversary,
June 6, 1855.
John A. Fox, 173 Tulip av-
enue, Floral Park. N. Y, has
published an attractive illus
trated catalog of California
and other Western Express COW
ers to be sold at auction at the
st. Francis Hotel, San Fran
cisco, September Is.
The Washington Philatelic
Society will stage an auction
and bourse at 2017 I street
NV, Wednesday evening at s.
Public invited.
Abraham Lincoln will be the
theme" of the 1854 National
Stamp Collecting Week, No
vember 1921. Clubs and other
groups desiring to participate
are requested to communicate
with Peter G. Keller. 116 Mas
sau street, New York City.
The postal authorities of
Turkey on August s, brought
out four new stamps to mark
the fifth anniversary of the
Council of Europe. They were
printed at the Academy of
Fine Arts Press in Ankara.