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Souvenir Pages
Souvenir Pages have been issued by the US Postal Service since the Yellowstone Park issue of 1972. Each 8 x 10-1/2 inch page is printed on tinted bond paper, often with watermarks, and includes an image of the stamp, data about the issue including designer, first day date, first day city, number of stamps printed and background information on the stamp's subject. The stamp itself is affixed to the page and first day cancelled. Since 1988, Page numbers are printed in the lower right corner. Generally, Page numbers are four-digit numbers beginning with the two-digit year followed by a two-digit sequence-of-issue number, e.g 9601, 9602, etc. Pages issued prior to 1988 were not printed with a number, but have since been assigned numbers in The Postal Service Guide to US Stamps by the ASPPP (and accepted by the USPS) going back to 1972, the start of the subscription program. Pages have been issued (with only a few exceptions in 2000) for every US stamp. The subscription cost of Souvenir Pages and the pricing structure have changed over the years:
1972: 50-cents plus the face value of the stamps affixed.
1978: 75-cents plus the face value of the stamps affixed.
1983: $1.00 or the face value of the stamps affixed, whichever is larger.
1991: $1.25 or the face value of the stamps affixed, whichever is larger.
1993: $1.50 or the face value of the stamps affixed, whichever is larger.
2001: $2.00 or the face value of the stamps affixed, whichever is larger.
2003: $2.50 or the face value of the stamps affixed, whichever is larger.
Our goal is to list and scan every Souvenir Page since the start of the series; links to tables for each year from 1972 to 2001 will be added below as we assemble them, and scans of Pages will be included as they become available. Pages issued since 2002 were renamed American Commemorative Cancellation Pages and are listed and scanned in a separate section. Stamp Posters, which were posted on Post Office bulletin boards to announce new issues, are the forerunners to Souvenir Pages.