The portrait of Martha Washington on the 4¢ denomination was replaced with the recently deceased President William Taft. It was envisioned that Taft would have his own commemorative stamp, Instead they removed the only woman to have a portrait on a stamp to accommodate Taft. This meant that only men were depicted on stamps, with the small exception of a small image of a nurse on the Red Cross stamp (#702). It would be another six years before a woman was featured on a stamp.

The source photograph of the vignette was the above photograph of William Taft taken by Harris & Ewing in Washington DC, when Taft was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court