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Canadian postage stamp depicting chemical industry

  • 1956

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Stamp depicts aspects of chemistry and related sciences. The design depicting a laboratory vessel is illustrative of the scientific equipment used widely for research in the chemical industry. A representative chemical plant appears in the lower part of the glass container. Glass tubing extending from the vessel encloses at enlarged ends a head of wheat to represent agriculture and a symbolic industrial plant.

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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 1

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“Canadian Postage Stamp Depicting Chemical Industry.” Canada, 1956. Witco Stamp Collection, Box 1. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/9s1616474.

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