This stamp celebrates the 150th anniversary of Nebraska’s statehood. Known for its agricultural bounty, the Cornhusker State became the 37th state of the Union on March 1, 1867. In the photograph used as the stamp design, sandhill cranes fly low to scout for sandbars, which provide shelter from nighttime predators during a mid-migratory rest for half a million of these ancient birds. This spectacle along the Platte River is unique to Nebraska.

It is the only of the 50 states with a unicameral and official nonpartisan legislature. Those indigenous to Nebraska branches of the Lakota, Missouria, Omaha, Otoe, Ponca, and Pawnee tribes. Crossed by many historic trails, the state was explored by the Lewis and Clark expedition.