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Author: Cheryl Ganz Publisher: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: 1935623540 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 151
Book Description
Every stamp and piece of mail tells a story. In fact, each often tells multiple stories, ranging from concept to art design to production to usage, often with tales of politics, history, technology, biography, genealogy, economics, geography, disaster, and triumph. The lens of philately offers a fresh and engaging story of American history, culture, and identity, and it can also help deepen the understanding of world cultures. The William H. Gross Stamp Gallery, opened at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in September 2013, has many such stories to tell. Chief philately curator Cheryl R. Ganz guides readers through some of the gallery's nearly 20,000 objects that together illustrate the history of our nation's postal operations and postage stamps.
Author: Cheryl Ganz Publisher: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: 1935623540 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 151
Book Description
Every stamp and piece of mail tells a story. In fact, each often tells multiple stories, ranging from concept to art design to production to usage, often with tales of politics, history, technology, biography, genealogy, economics, geography, disaster, and triumph. The lens of philately offers a fresh and engaging story of American history, culture, and identity, and it can also help deepen the understanding of world cultures. The William H. Gross Stamp Gallery, opened at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in September 2013, has many such stories to tell. Chief philately curator Cheryl R. Ganz guides readers through some of the gallery's nearly 20,000 objects that together illustrate the history of our nation's postal operations and postage stamps.
Author: Chris West Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1250043697 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 295
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DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF AMERICA THROUGH ITS BEAUTIFUL AND DIVERSE POSTAGE STAMPS IN THIS EXUBERANT AND ALWAYS CHARMING HISTORY. In A History of America in Thirty-six Postage Stamps, Chris West explores America's own rich philatelic history. From George Washington's dour gaze to the charging buffalo of the western frontier and Lindbergh's soaring biplane, American stamps are a vivid window into our country's extraordinary and distinctive past. With the always accessible and spirited West as your guide, discover the remarkable breadth of America's short history through a fresh lens. On their own, stamps can be curiosities, even artistic marvels; in this book, stamps become a window into the larger sweep of history.
Author: Douglas S. Weisz Publisher: ISBN: 9780692243435 Category : Cachets (Philately) Languages : en Pages : 312
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Dorothy Knapp: Philately and Family is the definitive biography and complete works of the most famous cachet artist in the history of philately. Envelope art has been utilized for over a century to communicate a public message through the mail system. Every stamp and event tells a story and Dorothy illustrated this in her legendary style within the limited canvas of an envelope. Over 1600 full color images tell the story of her work of nearly 20 years. The collection of these works uncovered unsolved mysteries about her relationships with others in the industry and identification of her unsigned work. Journals, letters, interviews and family photos tell her personal story and how her life translated into this remarkable body of work.
Author: The Style Factory Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 108
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About This Stamp Book This stamp book album is a must-have for every stamp collector. It will help you organize your stamp collection. You can get creative in how to categorize your stamps like based on country or color or decade or animals etc. Document and archive your valuable stamps for your future generation or for exhibitions. Create an index using the index tables provided at the back of the book for easy referencing. Feature Of This Stamp Book Size : Large Size 8.5 x 11 In Total Pages: 108 (100 Page for pasting stamp. Other 8 pages include index pages, a page for some interesting stamp facts, note) High-quality Cream color pages. Premium quality softcover. Paste stamp using any adhesive. This stamp book is a perfect gift for a stamp collecting enthusiast. Grab Yours Now! and start sticking your stamps or use it as a unique gift and make someone happy. Best for gifting to young kdis
Author: Roshan Prasad Publisher: OrangeBooks Publication ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 153
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The author is a postgraduate in Social Work, with 8+ years of experience as a developmental professional. She has worked in different capacities through which she acquired skills such as monitoring & evaluation, research, analytical, critical thinking, training, capacity building, developing community institution models, creating content for the community, etc. The author worked closely with the community during her career, inclination towards community institutions was when she was working in the Tourism sector in the institution-building domain. Through her hands-on experience in these roles, she has contributed to the empowerment of communities, allowing them to take control of their development. Her experience likely includes mobilizing community members, facilitating discussions, and guiding the process of leadership development and institution formation.
Author: Fay Sweet Publisher: ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 140
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Since her accession to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has become one of the most familiar icons of Great Britain and the face of the modern monarchy. This lavish and fascinating volume illustrates her half-century reign and celebrates the reproduction of one of the twentieth-century’s most recognizable images in stamps through the unparalleled philatelic collection of the British Library and the Royal Mail. A fully revised and expanded edition of the 2002 book, this volume presents over 250 beautifully reproduced images—including every single design of the “special stamps” issued for royal occasions, plus those designed by members of the royal family themselves, providing an unsurpassed visual record of the illustrious monarch’s life and times. Featuring recent events such as the death of the Queen Mother, the wedding of Charles and Camilla, the eightieth birthday of the Queen and the new “Diamond Wedding” stamps published for the celebrations of October 2007, this remarkable volume is an essential addition for anyone with an interest in stamps and their design, as well as those fascinated by the life of the royal family.
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: Cheryl Ganz
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