Sunday Stamps | F is for Feminist

Simonne Monet-Chartrand (1919 – 1993) was a Canadian labor activist, feminist writer, and pacifist.

The stamp were issued in 2023, along with two more stamps featuring Léa Roback and Madeleine Parent. All three women were born in Montréal and were lifelong advocates for women’s and workers’ rights and other causes. You can read more about them in the Canada Post online magazine.

This is my F entry for the A-Z Sunday Stamps.

Sunday Stamps | E Is for Equality of Opportunities

Although I do not understand the text, I found out that these 2012 Turkish stamps are dedicated to Ensuring Equal Opportunities for Women and Men. The illustration is supposed to represent the world on the shoulders of men and women.

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I am showing women related stamps for this new A-Z round in Sunday Stamps. Go there to see more E-stamps!

Sunday Stamps | D Is for Duchess

Rachel Meghan Markle (born 1981) is an American member of the British royal family, media personality, entrepreneur, and former actress. She is married to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of King Charles III.

She became a princess of the United Kingdom upon her marriage to Prince Harry, entitled to the style of Royal Highness. After her marriage, she was styled "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex", being the first person to hold this title.

See more D-stamps on today's Sunday Stamps.

Sunday Stamps | C Is for Country Singers

The Carter Family was an American folk music group that recorded and performed between 1927 and 1956. Alvin Pleasant "A.P." Carter and his wife, Sara, joined with sister-in-law Maybelle to perform a repertoire of original tunes and traditional folk songs laced with a strong gospel emphasis. Some of their signature numbers included Wildwood Flower and I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes.

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For the new edition of Sunday Stamps A to Z, I have decided to show some of the stamps I have got on letters and postcards, related to one topic: women. This is the post for the letter C.

Sunday Stamps | B Is for Belcourt

Christi Belcourt (born 1966) is a visual artist, environmentalist, social justice advocate, and avid land-based based arts and language learner. She is most well known for her large painted floral landscapes of Metis beadwork.

This stamp was issued in 2024, and belongs to the Indigenous Leaders series, launched in 2022.

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For the current round of Sunday Stamps A-Z I choose stamps dedicated to women. You can see here the list of all the Women on Stamps featured on this blog.

Go to Sunday Stamps  to enjoy more B-stamps.

Sunday Stamps | A Is for Anneke & Aussem

Welcome to a new alphabet round in Sunday Stamps! For this new A-Z round I am (again!) showing stamps dedicated to women, among those that I have received. Starting with A...

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817 – 1884) was a German writer, feminist, and radical democrat who participated in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. In 1849, she moved to the United States, where she campaigned to end slavery, agitated to enfranchise women, and ran a girls' school.

Cilly Aussem (1909 – 1963) was a German tennis player. She was the first German, male or female, to win the singles title at Wimbledon,  in 1931.

Both stamps were issued in 1998, and belong to the series Frauen der deutschen Geschichte (='Women in German history'), a definitive stamp series issued in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin from 1986 to 1990, and in reunited Germany 1990 to 2003. 

Just Some Random Envelopes for You to Enjoy

Sent by Sandy (Germany), Phillip (the USA) and Fabienne (France).

Sunday Stamps | Random Women

AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia. Lucy was named after the 1967 song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles.

Julie-Victorie Daubié (1824 – 1874) was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university in 1871.

Françoise Sagan (1935 – 2004) was a French writer. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse (1954). On the selvedge, however, you see the title of another of her works: Des bleus à l'âme (1972).

I have chosen these stamps for the theme Women of Sunday Stamps because they were all issued in 2024 and arrived together on this envelope made by Fabienne (France).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Kirghiz Girl

The Daughter of Soviet Kirghizia, by S. Chuykov. Postcard sent by Eduard (Russia), with a vintage matching stamp.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
March theme: WOMAN

• Week 1 - Working
• Week 2 - Relaxing
• Week 3 - Reading, Handwork
• Week 4 - Famous Women

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Women Belong in All Places

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

Card sent by Phillip (the USA), with a quotation by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the USA.

The stamps honouring her were issued on 2nd October, 2023.

I got this postcard on 8 March 2024.

States Project | The Lone Star State

One among many other curious thing about this new States Project postcard: Why the Texas states bird is the Northern Mockingbird? (Same as in Arkansas and Florida, by the way).

Oh... And is there a state verb?!?

The flag stamp made me immediately think of the following one, which I love

Sunday Stamps | Women & Music

All styles of musicians & Singers from different countries for today's Sunday Stamps' topic: Famous Women.

Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
Contralto
USA, 2022

Roza Blaglanova (1922-2011)
Soprano opera & pop music singer
Kazakhstan, 2022

Maria Callas (1923-1977)
Soprano
France, 2023

Patsy Cline (1932-1963)
Country and Western singer, songwriter and pianist 
USA, 1993

Eleanor Collins (1919-2024)
Canada's First Lady of Jazz
Canada, 2022

Elisapie - ᐃᓕᓴᐱ (1977)
Musician
Canada, 2024

Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)
Gospel singer
USA, 1998

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973)
Gospel singer, songwriter and guitarist 
USA, 1998

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (1916-2024)
Singer
India, 2015

Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Jazz & blues singer
USA, 1994

Kate Smith (1907-1998)
Contralto, The First Lady of Radio
USA, 2010

Dinah Washington (1924-1963)
Rhythm & blues singer and pianist
USA, 1993

Sunday Stamps | German Composers

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 – 1847), known as Fanny Hensel after her marriage and Clara Schumann, (née Wieck, 1819 – 1896) were German pianists and composers of the Romantic era.

 

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Authors and Composers on stamps.

Sunday Stamps | Underground Railroad

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Cincinnati, Ohio

From the USPS page:

From the time slavery was introduced to the Colonies until it was abolished in 1865, enslaved people tried to escape. This stamp issuance commemorates the Underground Railroad, as their resistance efforts became known. The pane of 20 stamps features 10 sepia-toned portraits of men and women who escaped slavery and/or helped others escape: Catharine Coffin, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Garrett, Laura Haviland, Lewis Hayden, Harriet Jacobs, William Lambert, Jermain Loguen, William Still and Harriet Tubman. Below each portrait are eight lines of text: BLACK/WHITE; COOPERATION; TRUST/DANGER; FLIGHT/FAITH; COURAGE/RISK; DEFIANCE/HOPE; UNDERGROUND; RAILROAD/USA. On the pane’s verso is a map showing the general routes freedom seekers followed and a list of individuals pictured on the stamps with a few words of biographical information about each. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps using existing images.

Catharine Coffin / Lewis Hayden

Jermain Loguen / Harriet Tubman

William Still / Harriet Jacobs / Jermain Loguen

Catharine Coffin / Laura Haviland / Harriet Tubman

Mail sent by Phillip (the USA). I added it to Sunday Stamps, today's theme being Headshots.

I Need This Rubber Stamp!

It is not unusual that my letters contains a couple of paragraphs about books. This way, I could write an index on the envelope, as Rosemary (Canada) did!

Calendars | Alice

Front and back of some envelopes made out reused calendars with illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Sent to the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands.