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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Artists' books Languages : en Pages : 32
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"The women of the artist's family--from her granddaughter to her granddaughter's father's father's father's mother--presented on images of commemorative stamps"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on March 2, 2015.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Artists' books Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
"The women of the artist's family--from her granddaughter to her granddaughter's father's father's father's mother--presented on images of commemorative stamps"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on March 2, 2015.
Author: Sheila Brennan Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472900846 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 237
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Winner of the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities In the age of digital communications, it can be difficult to imagine a time when the meaning and imagery of stamps was politically volatile. While millions of Americans collected stamps from the 1880s to the 1940s, Stamping American Memory is the first scholarly examination of stamp collecting culture and how stamps enabled citizens to engage their federal government in conversations about national life in early-twentieth-century America. By examining the civic conversations that emerged around stamp subjects and imagery, this work brings to light the role that these underexamined historical artifacts have played in carrying political messages. Sheila A. Brennan crafts a fresh synthesis that explores how the US postal service shaped Americans’ concepts of national belonging, citizenship, and race through its commemorative stamp program. Designed to be saved as souvenirs, commemoratives circulated widely and stood as miniature memorials to carefully selected snapshots from the American past that also served the political needs of small interest groups. Stamping American Memory brings together the histories of the US postal service and the federal government, collecting, and philately through the lenses of material culture and memory to make a significant contribution to our understanding of this period in American history.
Author: Laura Goldblatt Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231557337 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 244
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More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp collecting a widespread hobby and made stamps into consumer goods in their own right. Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. They argue that postage stamps, which are both devices to pay for a government service and purchasable items themselves, embody a crucial tension: is democracy defined by political agency or the freedom to buy? The changing images and uses of stamps reveal how governmental authorities have attempted to navigate between public service and businesslike efficiency, belonging and exclusion, citizenship and consumerism. Stamps are vehicles for state messaging, and what they depict is tied up with broader questions of what it means to be American. Goldblatt and Handler combine historical, sociological, and iconographic analysis of a vast quantity of stamps with anthropological exploration of how postal customers and stamp collectors behave. At the crossroads of several disciplines, this book casts the symbolic and material meanings of stamps in a wholly new light.
Author: Maurice D. Wozniak Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440242011 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 513
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Featuring more than 1,000 color pictures and current pricing, this dynamic field guide is the most complete and compact guide to U.S. stamps on the market.
Author: Rodney A. Juell Publisher: ISBN: 9781886513983 Category : Postage stamps Languages : en Pages : 0
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The most comprehensive introduction and guide to collecting U.S. stamps ever written. It opens the hobby to a new generation of collectors, and serves as a treasured reference for established ones. This book, which supplements and transcends a catalog, provides the reader with a vast array of information about United States stamps, as well as many practical tips and suggestions for collecting them. There s over 300 years of American history carefully written and designed to appeal to collectors of all ages, and levels of interest. Kirk House Publishers is pleased to present this unique resource as a salute to these fascinating and highly collectible tiny pieces of paper and to the men and women who collect them.
Author: United States Postal Service Publisher: Collins Reference ISBN: 9780062024367 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 0
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Now in its 37th edition, The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps is an indispensable handbook for philatelists and hobbyists everywhere. The only fully-illustrated, four-color guide to U.S. stamps, this official publication from the United States Postal Service provides the most comprehensive information available about the U.S. stamp program and its vivid history. Every category of U.S. stamp is included—definitive, commemorative, airmail, duck stamps, and stamped envelopes—and the book is organized into easy-to-use, color-coded sections for quick access.
Author: Sheila Brennan Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472123947 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
Winner of the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities In the age of digital communications, it can be difficult to imagine a time when the meaning and imagery of stamps was politically volatile. While millions of Americans collected stamps from the 1880s to the 1940s, Stamping American Memory is the first scholarly examination of stamp collecting culture and how stamps enabled citizens to engage their federal government in conversations about national life in early-twentieth-century America. By examining the civic conversations that emerged around stamp subjects and imagery, this work brings to light the role that these underexamined historical artifacts have played in carrying political messages. Sheila A. Brennan crafts a fresh synthesis that explores how the US postal service shaped Americans’ concepts of national belonging, citizenship, and race through its commemorative stamp program. Designed to be saved as souvenirs, commemoratives circulated widely and stood as miniature memorials to carefully selected snapshots from the American past that also served the political needs of small interest groups. Stamping American Memory brings together the histories of the US postal service and the federal government, collecting, and philately through the lenses of material culture and memory to make a significant contribution to our understanding of this period in American history.