February 23, 1976 – The United States Postal Service – in celebration of America’s Bicentennial Celebration – issues a 50-state sheet of commemorative postage stamps that feature the 50 state flags.

Lots of famous folks have Iowa connections, with a small handful of them having been pictured on U.S. postage stamps! The only prerequisite, sadly, is that you have to be deceased. Take a look at these famous Iowans who made their mark in the world, and here, in one place, is the complete list of U.S. commemorative postage stamps featuring events and locations with Iowa-based themes!

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Clark + Clark + Cole = Equality in Education. Did you know that the Iowa Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools in 1868 – eighty-six years before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education in 1954? Thanks to Muscatine’s Alexander Clark and his 12-year-old daughter Susan, working alongside Judge Chester C. Cole, the color barrier was broken, placing the Hawkeye State on the cutting edge of the civil rights movement.

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February 22, 1831 – Iowa City’s Alfred B. Cree is born in Perry County, Pennsylvania.

When it comes to Civil War letters, there’s no one like Iowa City’s Alfred B. Cree and his collection of letters to “the one I love best” – Mrs. A.B. Cree – or Mattie – for short – back home in Iowa City. From 1862-1865, Captain Cree faithfully wrote his wife as his Regiment – the 22nd Iowa Infantry – trekked across the south from Texas to New Orleans, from Tennessee to North Carolina and Virginia, finally mustering out in Savannah, Georgia in July 1865.

Come check out two beautiful letters from A.B. Cree to his wife Mattie – written in late March & early April, 1865 from Morehead City, North Carolina.

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