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The title of the pane is a reference to the opening lyrics of America, the Beautiful: “O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.”

The new nondenominated ($1.16) commemorative will satisfy the rate for a domestic 3-ounce letter that went into effect Jan. 21, along with a host of other postal rate increases.

Graphic design - Digital Revolution, Typography, Visual Communication: Until the late 20th century, the graphic-design discipline had been based on handicraft processes: layouts were drawn by hand in order to visualize a design; type was specified and ordered from a typesetter; and type proofs and photostats of images were assembled in position on heavy paper or board for photographic reproduction and platemaking. Over the course of the 1980s and early ’90s, however, rapid advances in digital computer hardware and software radically altered graphic design. Software for Apple’s 1984 Macint...

At the time it was issued, the 91¢ Ralph Ellison stamp paid the 3-ounce first-class letter rate.

The trees depicted in the five designs are a Sierra juniper, black pine, banyan, trident maple and azalea.