Stamping American memory collectors, citizens, and the post
"In the age of digital communications, it can be difficult to imagine a time when the meaning and imagery of stamps was politically volatile. While millions of Americans collected stamps from the 1880s to the 1940s, Stamping American Memory is the first scholarly examination of stamp collecting...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Press
2018, 2018©2018
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| Series: | Digital humanities
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Building philatelic communities
- Learning to read stamps
- Federal participation in philately
- Shaping national identity with commemoratives in the 1920s and 1930s
- Representing unity and equality in New Deal stamps
- Appendix: American commemorative stamps issued, 1892-1940