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Zim Waterfall.
Airmail. First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 16.12.1957.
Face value: 5 Haitian centimes.
Printed by Courvoisier S.A.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 468.
- Scott No. C108.
- StampWorld No. 463.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 553.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA117.

Zim Waterfall (Bassin Zim) is located about 8 km (5 mi) north of the city of Hinche, in the Centre Department, in the Central Plateau of Haiti, at more than 250 m (820 ft) above sea level. The waterfall, just over 20 m (65 ft) high, is located in the course of the Samana River and forms a series of natural pools; next to it there are several caves, in some of which there are Taino petroglyphs, which are usually used for voodoo rituals. These caves served as a hiding place for escaped slaves in colonial times. The place has become a tourist attraction.

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3rd Pan American Sport Games, Chicago.
Jean Baptiste Paul Dessables and Region of Lake Michigan map.
Third stamp in a set of 3, issued on 27.08.1959.
Face value: 75 cents of Haitian gourde.
Printed by Staatsdruckerei, Wien.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 34 x 45 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 582.
- Scott No. 450.
- StampWorld No. 570.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 651.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 422.

Jean Baptiste Paul Dessables (or Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable) born in Saint-Marc, in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), between 1745 and 1750 and died in Saint Charles, in the present American state of Mossouri in 1818, he was the first inhabitant of the city of Chicago, of which he is considered the founder. He was a mulatto, the son of a French sailor and a former slave of African origin. In 1765 he arrived in New Orleans, then under Spanish control, traced the Mississippi River to the current state of Illinois, and in 1779 he settled in the place where Chicago currently stands (thirty years before the construction of Fort Dearborn), where he built a house. He was not officially recognized as the founder of Chicago until 1968.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).

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Inauguration of Duvalier-Ville.
Map of Duvalier-Ville and reproduction of a old stamp.
First stamp in a set of 6, issued on 10.12.1962.
Face value: 5 cents of Haitian gourde.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 735.
- Scott No. 500.
- StampWorld No. 723.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 843.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 499.

Duvalier-Ville is the name given in July 1961 to Cabaret (in Haitian Creole, Kabarè), in the Ouest department of Haiti, when the dictator François Duvalier started a project to build a new neighborhood in the city with the intention of to perpetuate his name; This denomination was preserved during the mandate of his son and his successor, Jean-Claude Duvalier, until he was deposed and fled the country in 1986. Currently Cabaret has a population of just over 68,000 inhabitants. The city owes its name to the settler who founded it, M. de Cabaret, Comte d’Arquin who was the Governor of the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the early 18th century.

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In memory of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965).
Maps of Alsace and Gabon.
First stamp in a set of 7, issued on 20.04.1967.
Face value: 5 cents of Haitian gourde.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 41 x 29 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 892.
- StampWorld No. 880.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1008.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 567.

Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (Kaysersberg, Alsace, German Empire, January 14, 1875 - Lambaréné, Gabon, September 4, 1965) was a Franco-German doctor, philosopher, theologian and musician who spent most of his life in Lambaréné (French Equatorial Africa, currently in the Republic of Gabon), where he established a hospital with his wife and cared for thousands of patients. He cared for hundreds of lepers and treated many victims of the African disease known as sleeping sickness. In 1952 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.

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Map. Tribute to the United Nations.
Air mail. Last stamp in a set of 5, issued on 05.12.1958. 
Face value: 1 Haitian gourde.
Printed by Corvousier S.A., Switzerland.
Size: 30.5 x 22.2 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 534.
- Scott No. C135.
- StampWorld No. 522.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA145.