Nurse Dorothea Dix Mint One Cent Vintage Stamp Block from 1981

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Welcome------up for sale is a block of twelve 1-cent postage stamps of Dorothea Dix.  Ships is a standard first class mail envelope
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses.
BORN:
November 8, 1900,
DIED:
August 16, 1949,
BURIED:
August 18, 1949,
MOVIES:  GONE WITH THE WIND