Scott U.s. Specialized Catalog 1994
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File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1993
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ISBN : 9789993837398
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File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1993
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ISBN : 9789993837398
Author : Scott
Publisher : Scott Publishing Company
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 1993-11-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780894871955
Including postage, air post, plate blocks, first day covers, postal stationery, revenue stamps, [etc.].
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Page : 3310 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
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Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Stamp collecting
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Author : Laura Goldblatt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,97 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.
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Postage-stamps
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Author : Tricia Martineau Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0762767421
The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a living in the Old West—industrious men resolved to carve out a life for themselves on the wild, roaming plains. Some had experience working cattle from their time as slaves; others simply sought a freedom they had never known before. The lucky travelled on horseback; the rest, by foot. Over dirt roads they went from Alabama and South Carolina to present-day Texas and California up north through Kansas to Montana. The Old West was a land of opportunity for these adventurous wranglers and future rodeo champions. A long overdue testament to the courage and skill of black cowboys, Black Cowboys of the Old West finally gives these courageous men their rightful place in history. Praise for an earlier book by the same author: “Whether you are a history enthusiast or a lover of adventure stories, African American Women of the Old Westpresents the reader with fascinating accounts of ten extraordinary, generally unrecognized, African Americans. Tricia Martineau Wagner takes these remarkable women from the footnotes of history and brings them to life.” —Ed Diaz, President of the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation
Author : Rose Arny
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Page : 3088 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : American literature
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Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Research
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Author : Scott
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Page : 714 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 1992-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780894871825