The United States Postal Service announced that it is issuing a new commemorative stamp honoring the late President George H. W. Bush.
The stamp, which is now available for pre-order, will be available for delivery following a first-day-of-issue ceremony, which will be held on Bush’s birthday, June 12, at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum (shown below). Bush died November 30, 2018 at the age of 94.
Charles Wilson Peale’s portrait of Washington commemorating the victory at Princeton.
(FoxNews) – The storied blue sash worn by George Washington (above) during the Revolutionary War has gone on display at Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution. The sash, on loan from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Ethnography and Archaeology, was rediscovered several years ago by Dr. Philip Mead, chief historian and director of curatorial affairs at the Museum of the American Revolution. Mead found the artifact at the Peabody Museum, where it had essentially been hidden in plain sight for decades. He spent years studying the sash before concluding that it was indeed the one worn by Washington.
The sash (below) which is on display until Oct. 9, is featured with a 1776 portrait of Washington by Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale, which depicts him wearing the sash. The portrait is on loan from the Brooklyn Museum.
Washington’s uniform sash.
George Washington depicted in the Battle of Princeton.