House Documents
Author : United States House of Representatives
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Page : 732 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : United States House of Representatives
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Page : 732 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 1864
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Author : Claude Halstead Van Tyne
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Archives
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Author : United States. Congress. House
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Page : 722 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 1864
Category : United States
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Author : United States. National Currency Bureau
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Bank notes
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Author : United States. Congress. House
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Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1865
Category : United States
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Author : Laura Goldblatt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0231557337
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 : U.S. Congress 38th Congress 1st Session
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Page : 942 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Executive departments
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 910 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Law
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Numismatics
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