Stamping American memory : collectors, citizens, and the post / Sheila A. Brennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, Sheila, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Digital humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stamp collecting--United States--History.

Stamp collecting.

Postage stamps--United States--History.

Postage stamps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 culture and how stamps enabled citizens to engage their federal government in conversations about national life in early-twentieth-century America. By examining the civic conversations that emerged around stamp subjects and imagery, this work brings to light the role that these under- examined historical artifacts have played in carrying political messages. Sheila A. Brennan crafts a fresh synthesis that explores how the US postal service shaped Americans' concepts of national belonging, citizenship, and race through its commemorative stamp program. Designed to be saved as souvenirs, commemoratives circulated widely and stood as miniature memorials to carefully selected snapshots from the American past that also served the political needs of small interest groups. Stamping American Memory brings together the histories of the US postal service and the federal government, collecting, and philately through the lenses of material culture and memory to make a significant contribution to our understanding of this period in American history

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

American commemorative stamps issued, 1892-1940.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on information from the publisher.

Has Supplement:

Supplement (work): Brennan, Sheila Stamping American memory 1 online resource (50 photos)

ISBN:

9780472900848

0472900846

9780472123940

0472123947

OCLC:

1037812037

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access