By: Joe Strupp The famous photo taken by Thomas E. Franklin of three firefighters raising an American flag at New York's World Trade Center site on Sept. 11 may be priceless to many, but it's worth 45 cents to the U.S. Postal Service.
That's the fee for a new stamp bearing the image shot by Franklin, a staff photographer at
The Record in Hackensack, N.J. Postal officials released the stamp June 7, marking the first time an unretouched newspaper photo has appeared on a U.S. postage stamp.
Known as a "semipostal" stamp, it costs 45 cents, but is worth only 34 cents in postage because the remaining 11 cents is being donated to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The stamp's creation required an act of Congress to allow the three firefighters to appear on the stamp, as the honor is usually reserved for those who are deceased.
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