2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Photographs by Ansel Adams: Jeffery Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park
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US #5854k
2024 Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1940 – Ansel Adams
• Part of the set honoring influential 20th century American photographer Ansel Adams and marks the 40th anniversary of his death
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Ansel Adams
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: May 15, 2024
First Day City: Yosemite National Park, California
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 16
Tagging: Phosphor, Block Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate Ansel Adams and the huge impact his photography had on the art world and environmentalism in the United States.
About the stamp design: Shows a black-and-white photograph taken by Adams in 1940. Pictures a Jeffrey pine tree at Sentinel Dome in Yosemite National Park, California.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park, California.
History the stamps represent: One of Ansel Adams’s major goals in life was to encourage the conservation and protection of the beautiful and wild places he photographed.
In 1940, Adams hiked to the top of Sentinel Dome, Yosemite’s second-highest point. There, he took a photo featured on this 2024 US stamp, Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. Estimated to be about 400 years old, the gnarled Jeffrey Pine grew out of granite, likely from a seed dropped by a bird. Centuries of high winds and extreme weather gave the tree its distinctive shape.
Adams’s photograph may have worked too well. It made the tree famous. Over the years, thousands flocked to the tree to carve their initials into it. And it became one of the most photographed trees in the world. When the drought of 1976-77 hit, park rangers carried buckets of water to it. But the famed tree died that year. It stood until 2003, when severe storms blew most of it over, leaving only a stump behind.
We’re fortunate Adams photographed the tree, so future generations will be able to see it. He might have been disappointed by the large number of people carving their initials in the tree, as he once saw other people in the park as “an intrusion.” But in later years, he realized, a “Starry-eyed reaction to the splendors of nature is an invaluable experience for everyone.”
US #5854k
2024 Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1940 – Ansel Adams
• Part of the set honoring influential 20th century American photographer Ansel Adams and marks the 40th anniversary of his death
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Ansel Adams
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: May 15, 2024
First Day City: Yosemite National Park, California
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 16
Tagging: Phosphor, Block Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate Ansel Adams and the huge impact his photography had on the art world and environmentalism in the United States.
About the stamp design: Shows a black-and-white photograph taken by Adams in 1940. Pictures a Jeffrey pine tree at Sentinel Dome in Yosemite National Park, California.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park, California.
History the stamps represent: One of Ansel Adams’s major goals in life was to encourage the conservation and protection of the beautiful and wild places he photographed.
In 1940, Adams hiked to the top of Sentinel Dome, Yosemite’s second-highest point. There, he took a photo featured on this 2024 US stamp, Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. Estimated to be about 400 years old, the gnarled Jeffrey Pine grew out of granite, likely from a seed dropped by a bird. Centuries of high winds and extreme weather gave the tree its distinctive shape.
Adams’s photograph may have worked too well. It made the tree famous. Over the years, thousands flocked to the tree to carve their initials into it. And it became one of the most photographed trees in the world. When the drought of 1976-77 hit, park rangers carried buckets of water to it. But the famed tree died that year. It stood until 2003, when severe storms blew most of it over, leaving only a stump behind.
We’re fortunate Adams photographed the tree, so future generations will be able to see it. He might have been disappointed by the large number of people carving their initials in the tree, as he once saw other people in the park as “an intrusion.” But in later years, he realized, a “Starry-eyed reaction to the splendors of nature is an invaluable experience for everyone.”