Finding Aid to the Douglas Sandler Private Harvey Milk Stamps Coll2014.078
Michael C. Oliveira
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Douglas Sandler private Harvey Milk stamps
creator:
Sandler, Douglas
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2014.078
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
1 folder
Date (inclusive): 2012
Abstract: Stamps designed and commissioned by Douglas Sandler to honor slain San Francisco supervisor, Harvey Milk and printed in 2012
by a company in Auckland, New Zealand. Sandler commissioned his own private stamps to create an interest in stamp collecting
and the causes he supported.
Douglas Sandler was born in New York, New York. He graduated from Parkview High School in Lilburn, Georgia. He went on to
Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City, Florida, where he graduated with associates degrees in 2010 and in 2012.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Letter in lieu of deed of gift, dated April 30, 2013.
[Box #, folder #,] Douglas Sandler Private Harvey Milk Stamps, Coll2014-078, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Michael C. Oliveira, October 2014.
The collection consists of three sheets of ten stamps designed and commissioned by Douglas Sandler to honor slain San Francisco
supervisor, Harvey Milk. The stamps were printed by a company in Auckland, New Zealand. The collection also contains a first
day cover from Sandler's "Panama City Private Local Post" cancelled November 27, 2012.
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Commemorative postage stamps--United States--History.
Sandler, Douglas
Milk, Harvey (Harvey Bernard Milk)