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Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The American Stamp Mercury
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The American Stamp
Author: Laura GoldblattPublisher: 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.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Catalogue of the Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford, K.T.
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher: London : Philatelic Literature Society
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The American Weekly Mercury, Volume 4, Issues 160-212
Author: Colonial Society of PennsylvaniaPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781010500711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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The American Mercury
Author: George Jean NathanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Philatelical Library
Author: John K. TiffanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The American Philatelist
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The American Weekly Mercury, Volume 1, Issues 1-52
Author: Colonial Society of PennsylvaniaPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359971005
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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