Appreciation of Printing: Stamps, an Inherited Love

A stamp celebrating Maass' sacrifice, released in 1976, reads "She gave her life." Absent the stamp, her altruistic acts would have been known only to educators and hard-core history buffs. Anyone who collects U.S. stamps, on the other hand, has a baseline of knowledge about her—limited though it may be—and any other topics that have been celebrated with a stamp release.