paper; ink (brown, dark red, green on yellow); adhesive / engraving
Type:
Postage Stamps
Place:
Kansas
United States of America
Date:
May 10, 1961
Description:
This Kansas Statehood Issue stamp commemorates the 100th anniversary of Kansas’s admission into statehood. The territory obtained statehood in 1861. The state was carved from the Kansas Territory, which was created and organized by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The act also essentially repealed the Missouri Compromise; it allowed the settlers of the land to determine if they would allow slavery in the new territory. Kansas chose to exclude slavery from the territory. The land was originally a part of the Louisiana Purchase. The stamp features an image of a sunflower (the state flower), as well as a pioneer couple standing in front of a stockade.
