Author: Lawrence ShermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Covers (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
United States Patriotic Covers of World War II
Author: Lawrence ShermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Covers (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Catalogue of Patriotic Covers of World War II ...
Author: United States Patriotic Envelopes of World War II
Author: Lawrence ShermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780916675097
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalogue of Patriotic Covers of World War II ...
Author: Catalogue of Patriotic Covers of World War II (reprinted)
Author: Ward LinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Catalogue of Patriotic Covers of World War II
Author: George LinnPublisher:
ISBN: 9780897940061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Design for Victory
Author: William L. BirdPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568981406
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.
Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War
Author: Steven R. BoydPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807137960
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
During the Civil War, private printers in both the North and South produced a vast array of envelopes featuring iconography designed to promote each side's war effort. Many of these "covers" featured depictions of soldiers, prominent political leaders, Union or Confederate flags, Miss Liberty, Martha Washington, or even runaway slaves -- at least fifteen thousand pro-Union and two hundred fifty pro-Confederate designs appeared between 1861 and 1865. In Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War, the first book-length analysis of these covers, Steven R. Boyd explores their imagery to understand what motivated soldiers and civilians to support a war far more protracted and destructive than anyone anticipated in 1861. Northern envelopes, Boyd shows, typically document the centrality of the preservation of the Union as the key issue that, if unsuccessful, would lead to the destruction of United States, its Constitution, and its way of life. Confederate covers, by contrast, usually illustrate a competing vision of an independent republic free of the "tyranny" of the United States. Each side's flags and presidents symbolize these two rival viewpoints. Images of presidents Davis and Lincoln, often portrayed as contestants in a boxing match, personalized the contest and served to rally citizens to the cause of southern independence or national preservation. In the course of depicting the events of the period, printers also revealed the impact of the war on females and African Americans. Some envelopes, for example, featured women on the home front engaging in a variety of patriotic tasks that would have been almost unthinkable before the war. African Americans, on the other hand, became far more visible in American popular culture, especially in the North, where Union printers showed them pursuing their own liberation from southern slavery. With more than 180 full-color illustrations, Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War is a nuanced and fascinating examination of Civil War iconography that moves a previously overlooked source from the periphery of scholarly awareness into the ongoing analysis of America's greatest tragedy.
The America I Once Knew!: Vanishing But Not Forgotten
Author: Charles L. SalmPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595256708
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
If you enjoy reading a perspective on life that can be only be obtained from a member of the Greatest Generation, you have selected the right book. Chuck Salm entertains you with a series of essays that will strike a responsive chord, not only with his peers, but also with patriotic Americans of all ages. Forget political correctness and apologies for the wayward and the incompetent in our society. Don’t look for excuses that cover for our self-serving politicians. You may, at times, be offended—even outraged. You may also be delighted, heartened and encouraged by knowing that someone out there thinks like you do and does not shy away from writing the very things you believe in. To be sure, you will be entertained every step of the way. Read on!
Sounds of War
Author: Annegret FauserPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199948038
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Classical music in 1940s America had a cultural relevance and ubiquitousness that is hard to imagine today. No other war mobilized and instrumentalized culture in general and music in particular so totally, so consciously, and so unequivocally as World War II. Through author Annegret Fauser's in-depth, engaging, and encompassing discussion in context of this unique period in American history, Sounds of War brings to life the people and institutions that created, performed, and listened to this music.