Freedom from Hunger

The 1963 Freedom from Hunger issue was part of a worldwide campaign led by the Food and Agriculture Organization. The United Nations pair uses a sheaf of wheat.

Here the stamps are cancelled first day on a black-and-white photograph of field labour, printed as the face of an official envelope marked Return Requested.

Issued

22 March 1963

Place

United Nations, New York

Object

Photographic first-day cover

Stamps

Freedom from Hunger, 5¢ and 11¢