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Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The Philatelic West
Author: The Philatelic West and Camera News
Author: The American Philatelist
Author: The Philatelist
Author: The Collectors Club Philatelist
Author: Collectors Club (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Vol. for 1928 includes translations from Khol's Handbook.
A History of America in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps
Author: Chris WestPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250043697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF AMERICA THROUGH ITS BEAUTIFUL AND DIVERSE POSTAGE STAMPS IN THIS EXUBERANT AND ALWAYS CHARMING HISTORY. In A History of America in Thirty-six Postage Stamps, Chris West explores America's own rich philatelic history. From George Washington's dour gaze to the charging buffalo of the western frontier and Lindbergh's soaring biplane, American stamps are a vivid window into our country's extraordinary and distinctive past. With the always accessible and spirited West as your guide, discover the remarkable breadth of America's short history through a fresh lens. On their own, stamps can be curiosities, even artistic marvels; in this book, stamps become a window into the larger sweep of history.
Stamping American Memory
Author: Sheila BrennanPublisher: 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.
The Philatelic Gazette
Author: Roster, Western Cover Society, Unit No. 14, American Philatelic Society
Author: Western Cover SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Stamp collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Membership directory of the Western Cover Society, a society of collectors of postal history of the American West. Directory also includes list of society officers for 1959, necrology for 1959, and alphabetical list of members with home addresses, and number-coded areas of collecting interest.
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