Are These Post Office Likenesses Identified Anywhere In The Postal System

I acquired these when I was stationed in the Army in Europe. These photos preceded the actual stamps that were coming to the post office. Does anyone out here no anything about them. I know post masters were supposed to trash them when these stamps became issued. I haven't seen any info in any catalogs. Any thoughts?

Disregard this topic as I can't download the photos...

Are you speaking to the small black and white photo from the USPS used as publicity?

Besides postal workers, they were sent to media writers as well. I donated all I received to the Western Philatelic Library.

They are now considered loosely as modern photo essays. I know of no such listing, perhaps one day someone will undertake the cataloging.

Here is an example to which I refer:

I doubt this statement. Can you provide a citation for it?

While most were indeed likely discarded, I know of no directive, and certainly not accompanying those sent to the media.

Nor I, John Becker, but the OP seems to have indicated the items came to the APO "postmasters" in Germany. It would make reasonable sense that the Army may have issued such regulations for their APO personnel.

That's why I asked the original poster.

I refer to them as Photographic Essays
Welcome any correction there.
I have quite a few of them.........

I would think that these are publicity photographs for distribution to the philatelic press and interested parties, since they are images of the actual issued stamps/designs.

Makes sense, Bob,
but raises a question why the "Oblique Black Bar" is not included.

Because they are in black and white, and because they are greatly enlarged.

Rod222, read the included on the photograph instructions (see the top) in the photo in my first post in this thread. It restricts to only black and white copies.

I had read that, the colour green threw me,
I thought that may have been a cinderella.

So no copyright for stamp designs, reproduced in black and white,
used in a philatelic sense.
I guess that would have been useful in days gone by, before colour
magazines.

The lines across images or the diminution of the image in old albums were, I think, in response to prohibitions, particularly in the US, on reproduction of the stamp image for counterfeiting, not copyright, reasons. So if Gibbons wished to sell albums in the US, it had to change the image in some way.

There is a distinction between copyright and counterfeiting.

U.S. stamps have been copyrighted since 1978 (note the copyright notice on the 3 photos above, but not the earlier 10 cent airmail stamp).

For reproduction, here was the regulation in the Feb 1991 edition of the "Domestic Mail Manual" relating to color and size. I suspect the regulations are very similar today. The use of the diagonal black line makes any image "used", so the reproduced image color/size then becomes a non-issue.

Thanks John.
clears that up.
Saved.
Any suggestions on what to call these Photos?

They typically accompany a press release, so I would call them "press release photos", but some like to work the word "essay" into the description.