Browsing Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media by Subject "Collectors and collecting"

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Debating Identity and Origins in Early 20th-Century American Commemoratives

Brennan, Sheila A. (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2012)

Patriotic commemorations flowered following World War I in the United States, as did campaigns for securing limited- issue federal postage stamps. Beginning in 1920 with the Pilgrim Tercentenary issue, commemorative ...
‘Little Colored Bits of Paper’ Collected in the Progressive Era

Brennan, Sheila A. (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2010)

While the postal service promotes philately today, it was not until the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1892–1893 that the U.S. Post Office Department acknowledged and capitalized on the growing world of philatelists ...

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