29c Bessie Smith stamp – (United States Postal Service) Previous Next


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Date: 1994

Museum: Smithsonian's National Postal Museum (Washington, United States)

Technique: Lithography

Bessie Smith (1894-1937), the Empress of the Blues, began singing in public as a child for pennies. In 1923, her first recording,

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