Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
Publisher: London : Philatelic Literature Society
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Catalogue of the Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford, K.T.
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
Publisher: London : Philatelic Literature Society
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher: London : Philatelic Literature Society
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Catalogue of Books on Philately in the Public Library of the City of Boston ...
Author: Boston Philatelic Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Books on Philately in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: American Philatelic Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Paper Trails
Author: Cameron Blevins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190053690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190053690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
The Mulready Postal Stationery
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907630296
Category : Mulreadies (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907630296
Category : Mulreadies (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The American Philatelist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Library Bulletin
Author: University of Aberdeen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Encyclopedia of United States Stamps and Stamp Collecting
Author: Rodney A. Juell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781886513983
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781886513983
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Weekly Philatelic Gossip
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description