| Series |
Smithsonian contributions to history and technology ; no. 56
Smithsonian contributions to history and technology ; no. 56. ^A1022160
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Keynote address from 2011 symposium. Do We Still Need a Postal System? Thoughts on a Twenty-First-Century Federal Communications Policy / David Hochfelder. -- 2010 symposium-stamps and the mail: imagery, icons, and identity. Introduction to the 2010 Symposium / Thomas Lera ; Hermes: Message and Messenger / Diane DeBlois, Robert Dalton Harris, and Sune Christian Pedersen ; You Need to Get Your Head Examined: The Unchanging Portrait of Queen Victoria on Nineteenth-Century British Postage Stamps / Catherine J. Golden ; Debating Identity and Origins with Early Twentieth-Century American Commemoratives / Sheila A. Brennan ; The Trans-Mississippi Exposition Commemorative Stamp Issue and National Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Tessa Sabol ; Stalin on Stamps: Design, Propaganda, Politics / Alexander Kolchinsky ; Bearing Philatelic Witness: Victims of Stalinism on Stamps / Robin Gates Elliott ; Postage Stamp Images as Cultural Markers / Jack Trammell. -- 2011 Symposium-how commerce and industry shaped the mails. Introduction to the 2011 symposiums / Thomas Lera ; Rural Americans, Postcards, and the Fiscal Transformation of the Post Office Department, 1909-1911 / Daniel Gifford ; Order No. 10: Post Office Protection of the Express Cartel / David L. Straight ; Postmarking Records, Cancellations, and Postmaster Pay / Erick Lee Erickson ; "Live Chicks" Require First Class Treatment: The U.S. Special Handling Service / Robert G. Rufe ; United States Parcel Post System: Postage Due Stamps and Proofs / Harry K. Charles Jr. |
| Summary |
Rarely do scholars of postal organizations and systems meet and discuss their ideas and research with scholars of philately. In an attempt to bridge this gap, the National Postal Museum and the American Philatelic Society hosted the first Winton M. Blount Postal History symposium on 3-4 November 2006 to bring together these two research groups to discuss postal history. This publication covers the next two symposia. The 2010 theme was "Stamps and the Mail: Images, Icons and Identity." Stamps, as official government documents, can be treated as primary resources designed to convey specific political and esthetic messages. Other topics and themes for the symposium were stamp design's influence on advertising envelopes and bulk mailings, censorship of stamps as propaganda as used on letters, and the role of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee or organizations that generate the designs. The 2011 symposium was held at the American Philatelic Center in conjunction with the United States Stamp Society's annual meeting. The United States Stamp Society is the preeminent organization devoted to the study of U.S. stamps. It is a nonprofit, volunteer-run association of collectors to promote the study of the philatelic output of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and of postage and revenue stamped paper produced by others for use in the United States and U.S. administered areas. The theme of the symposium was "How Commerce and Industry Shaped the Mails." |
| General note | Shipping List no.: 2014-0020-P/CORRECTION. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Other forms | Also available on the World Wide Web. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium (5th : 2010 : Washington, D.C.). Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia select papers, 2010-2011 |
| Genre/form | Conference proceedings. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2012019198 |
| GPO item number | 0910-F |
| Govt. docs number |
SI 1.28:56 |
