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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brennan, Sheila Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Series:Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.