Author: Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780894871115
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Author: Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780894870927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1258

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Author: Scott Publications, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 3096

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Author: Charles Snee
Publisher: Scott
ISBN: 9780894875045
Category : Covers (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Many important editorial changes enhance the '2016 Scott specialized catalogue of United States stamps and covers'.

Author:
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ISBN: 9780894871634
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1306

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Countries of the world A-F.

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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Author: Scott Publishing Co
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 968

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Author: Rose Arny
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1498

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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: Alice Bertha Kroeger
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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