This is a beautiful complete set of 35 stamps, issued by the United States in 1940. It features famous American poets, writers, educators, scientists, composers, artists and inventors. the stamps depict Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Samuel L. Clemens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, James Whitcomb Riley, Horace Mann, Mark Hopkins, Charles W. Eliot, Frances E. Willard, Booker T. Washington, John James Audubon, Dr. Crawford W. Long, Luther Burbank, Dr. Walter Reed, Jane Addams, Stephen Foster, John Philip Sousa, Victor Herbert, Edward A. MacDowell, Ethelbert Nevin, Gilbert Stuart, James A. McNeill Whistler, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Frederic Remington, Eli Whitney, Samuel F. B. Morse, Cyrus H. McCormick, Elias Howe and Alexander Graham Bell. It is Scott catalog #859-93, and is mint never hinged in pristine condition.