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Summary

Non-free media information and use rationale true for History of Virginia on stamps
Description	Carter G. Woodson stamp issued February 1, 1984 in the Black Heritage Series to coincide with Black History Month one of his legacies in establishing black history as an academic field of study.
Source	Arago: people, postage & the post, National Postal Museum online
Article	History of Virginia on stamps
Portion used	entire stamps to identify stamp itself
Low resolution?	Sufficient resolution for illustration, but considerably lower resolution than original.
Purpose of use	Visual identification of a USPS stamp commemorating Carter G. Woodson in an educational article about an a USPS stamp represented by the image, illustrating the topic of the article. Limited use to “Other famous Virginians” to represent 20% African-American population in Virginia.
Replaceable?	No free version of USPS stamps available beginning 1978.
Other information	© United States Postal Service. All rights reserved. There is no possible commercial disadvantage to the copyright holder by using this image of a stamp in a Wikipedia article because the stamp's value is in the physical stamp, not the design.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:46, 15 December 2017		254 × 393 (27 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	15:57, 16 May 2014	No thumbnail	294 × 455 (72 KB)	TheVirginiaHistorian (talk \| contribs)	{{Non-free use rationale \|Article = History of Virginia on stamps \|Description = Carter G. Woodson stamp issued February 1, 1984 in the Black Heritage Series to coincide with Black History Month one of his legacies in establishing bla...

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