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1955 Commemorative Stamp


1955 stamp commemorating the land-grant universities
Stamp issued in 1955 commemorating the first of the land-grant universities. The 1862 Morrill Act granted federal land to states to create public universities. Iowa and Pennsylvania had already set aside land for this purpose, and their state universities were later named federal land-grant colleges.
credit: United States Postal Service