UNITED STATES POST OFFICE on 16 October 1946 issued a 3-cent postage stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Stephen Watts Kearny Expedition.
The stamp depicted General Kearny's expeditionary force arriving at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1846.
This brown-violet stamp was first released in Santa Fe, N.M. Approximately 114,684,450 stamps were printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing,nursing a Rotary Press.
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