First day cover honoring General Douglas MacArthur

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20039697

Description

First day cover honoring General Douglas MacArthur from MacArthur, West Virginia. The town was renamed for the General. On the cover is a patriotic drawing At the top is the Congressional Medal of Honor, below which is a head drawing of General MacArthur. A United States flag flies behind his likeness and is surrounded by the words "The Man of the Hour". Below General MacArthur's likeness is the sentence "A small West Virginia mining town named in honor of General Douglas MacArthur. The cachet was created at the Fleetword Cover Service company. This photograph was published in the April 26, 1942 morning edition of the Star-Telegram

Archival Date

1942-04-01

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-941

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

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License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

Star-Telegram