Height x Width: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3.02 × 3.02 cm)
Type:
Postage Stamps
Place:
United States of America
Date:
May 2, 2000
Description:
The Postal Service issued a Celebrate The Century: 1990s souvenir sheet in a gummed pane of fifteen on May 2, 2000, in Escondido, California.
Designed by Howard Paine of Delaplane, Virginia, and illustrated by Drew Struzan of Pasadena, California, the souvenir sheet features 1990s subjects from the following categories: People and Events, Arts and Entertainment, Life-styles, Sports, and Science and Technology. The fifteen commemorative stamps on this sheet are titled: New Baseball Records; Gulf War; Seinfeld; Extreme Sports; Improving Education; Computer Art and Graphics; Recovering Species; Return to Space; Special Olympics; Virtual Reality; "Jurassic Park"; "Titanic"; Sport Utility Vehicles; World Wide Web; and Cellular Phones.
Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., printed the stamps using the offset process. 82.5 million stamps were printed.
