Why no living people appear on US postage stamps
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The practice of putting images of only deceased or allegorical people on U.S. stamps dates back to 1847. Schulte Productions/iStock via Getty Images Plus – By Richard Handler, Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia And Laura Goldblatt, Assistant Professor of English, University of …