Author: United States. Office of Special Assistant to the Postmaster General
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Postage Stamps of the United States
Author: United States. Office of Special Assistant to the Postmaster General
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Postage Stamps of the United States
Author: United States Post Office Department. Division of Philately
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Postage Stamps of the United States
Author: John Nicholas Luff
Publisher:
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Semipostal Authorization Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The American Stamp
Author: Laura Goldblatt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231557337
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231557337
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Postage Stamps of the United States
Author: United States. Post Office Department. Office of Special Assistant to the Postmaster General
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A Glossary of Philatelic Terms
Author: Philatelic Congress of Great Britain
Publisher:
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America
Author: John K. Tiffany
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America" by John K. Tiffany. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America" by John K. Tiffany. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Postage Stamps of the United States
Author: United States Postal Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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