America stamps. USA, 1976 - Bisons on stamps

Stamps by countries \| America \| USA \| 1976

American Bicentennial. State Flags (pane of 50 different stamps).
		Stamp: Flag of Kansas Edition type: commemorative stamp Denomination: 13 c Date of issue: 1976 Feb. 23 Depiction: Flag of Kansas; 34th stamp in the sheet Colour: multicolored Paper: chalk-surfaced Designer: Walt Reed Perforation: comb. 11 Printing process: photogravure Size of a stamp (mm): 40×25,5 Size of a sheet (mm): Sheet composition: 50 (5×10) stamps Printing run: 8 720 100 Stamp issuing authority: United States Postal Service Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
	First day city was Washington, District of Columbia 20013.


	Flags are on stamps of the sheet at 13 cents apiece: 1) Delaware; 2) Pennsylvania; 3) New Jersey; 4) Georgia; 5) Connecticut; 6) Massachusetts; 7) Maryland; 8) South Carolina; 9) New Hampshire; 10) Virginia; 11) New York; 12) North Carolina; 13) Rhode Island; 14) Vermont; 15) Kentucky; 16) Tennessee; 17) Ohio; 18) Louisiana; 19) Indiana; 20) Mississippi; 21) Illinois; 22) Alabama; 23) Maine; 24) Missouri; 25) Arkansas; 26) Michigan; 27) Florida; 28) Texas; 29) Iowa; 30) Wisconsin; 31) California; 32) Minnesota; 33) Oregon; 34) Kansas; 35) West Virginia; 36) Nevada; 37) Nebraska; 38) Colorado; 39) North Dakota; 40) South Dakota; 41) Montana; 42) Washington; 43) Idaho; 44) Wyoming; 45) Utah; 46) Oklahoma; 47) New Mexico; 48) Arizona; 49) Alaska; 50) Hawaii.

The flag of Kansas was designed in 1925. Officially adopted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1927 and modified in 1961 to add the name of the state at the bottom of the flag. The official flag of Kansas is represented by a dark-blue silk rectangle arranged horizontally with the state seal aligned in the center. Above the seal is a sunflower which sits above a bar of gold and light blue. Below the seal is printed the name of the state "KANSAS". The seal contains state motto on Latin "Ad Astra per Aspera" ("To the Stars through Difficulties") and a landscape that includes a rising sun, representing the east. A river and steamboat, signifying commerce. In the foreground, a settler's cabin and a man plowing a field represent agriculture. A wagon train heads west (depicting American expansion) and Indians hunting American Bison (the buffalo are fleeing from the Indians). Around the top of the seal is a cluster of 34 stars which symbolizes Kansas’ role as the 34th state of the American Union.

Themes: bison (Bison bison), flags

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