Laura Goldblatt - The American Stamp: Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States
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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 countrys 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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FIGURE 3.1Early British stamps with the profile of Queen Victoria from (a) 1840 (Scott no. 1), (b) 1883 (Scott no. 96), (c) 1887 (Scott no. 120), and (d) 1900 (Scott no. 125). Source: Handlers collection.
FIGURE 3.2Early U.S. stamps: (a) George Washington, 1847 (Scott no. 2; (b) Andrew Jackson, 1863 (Scott no. 73); (c) Abraham Lincoln, 1890 (Scott no. 222); (d) Ben Franklin, 1900 (Scott no. 300). Source: Handlers collection.
FIGURE 4.1Fractional currency note bearing the likeness of Spencer Clark, superintendent of the National Currency Bureau, 1863. Source: National Museum of American History, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 5.1Issue of 1869: (a) Benjamin Franklin (Scott no. 112); (b) train (Scott no. 114), (c) Declaration of Independence (Scott no. 120), (d) national icons (Scott no. 121). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 5.2Western cattle in a storm, 1898 (Scott no. 292). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 5.4Slogan cancel for Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915. Source: Handlers collection.
FIGURE 6.1Series of 1902: (a) Martha Washington (Scott no. 306); (b) George Washington (Scott no. 301); (c) replacement George Washington two-cent (Scott no. 319). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 6.2Colorful Washington-Franklins, 1909 (Scott no. 365) and 1914 (Scott no. 419). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 6.3Series of 19221925: (a) Benjamin Harrison (Scott no. 622); (b) American Indian (Hollow Horn Bear) (Scott no. 565); (c) Statue of Liberty (Scott no. 566). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 6.4National Parks series, 1934: (a) Yosemite (Scott no. 740); (b) Grand Canyon (Scott no. 741). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 6.5Presidential issue (Prexies) of 1938: (a) George Washington (Scott no. 804); (b) John Tyler (Scott no. 815); (c) James A. Garfield (Scott no. 825); (d) Woodrow Wilson (Scott no. 832); (e) the White House (Scott no. 809). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 6.6Famous Americans series, 1940: (a) Jane Addams (Scott no. 878); (b) Booker T. Washington (Scott no. 873); (c) Frances E. Willard (Scott no. 872). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 6.7Liberty series, beginning 1954: (a) Statue of Liberty (Scott no. 1041); (b) Abraham Lincoln (Scott no. 1036); (c) Robert E. Lee (Scott no. 1049). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 6.8Prominent Americans series, 19651981: (a) Elizabeth Blackwell (Scott no. 1399); (b) Frank Lloyd Wright (Scott no. 1280). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 6.10Americana issue, 19751983: book, inkwell, podium, ballot box (Scott nos. 15811584). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.1First-day cover with USPS envelope and Scott no. 1396, canceled in Phoenixville, PA, with a Pray for Peace slogan. On the Pray for Peace slogan, see Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler, Pray for Peace but Fight Your Insect Enemies: US Postal Messaging and Cold War Propaganda, Amerikastudien 65, no. 3 (2020): 25578. Source: Handlers collection.
FIGURE 7.2Life magazine, cover, November 28, 1969. Source: Shutterstock.
FIGURE 7.3Postal workers in What Ails the U.S. Mails?, Life, November 28, 1969. Source: Photograph by Tom McCarthy.
FIGURE 7.5Postal People first-day cover, postmarked April 30, 1973, Brooklyn, NY. Source: Handlers collection.
FIGURE 7.7General Federation of Womens Clubs stamp, 1966 (Scott no. 1316). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.8Bill of Rights stamp, 1966 (Scott no. 1312). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.9City mail delivery stamp, 1963 (Scott no. 1238). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.10Law-and-order stamp, 1966 (Scott no. 1343). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.11Cartoon letter carriers, 1989 (Scott no. 2420). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.12Mr. Zip, c. 1966. Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.13It All Depends on Zip Code, 1974 (Scott no. 1511). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.14U.S. Postage Stamp Centenary, 1947 (Scott no. 947). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.15Universal Postal Conference of 1989 commemorated with images of traditional mail delivery (Scott nos. 2438a-d). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 7.16Cartoon letter carriers stamp (Scott no. 2420) canceled with thank you slogan, 1989. Source: Handlers collection.
FIGURE 8.1Black Heritage series, 1978present: Harriet Tubman (Scott no. 1744). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.2Black Heritage series, 1978present: Martin Luther King Jr. (Scott no. 1771). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.3Black Heritage series, 1978present: Carter G. Woodson (Scott no. 2073). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.4Black Heritage series, 1978present: Ida B. Wells (Scott no. 2442). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.5Chief Joseph, 1968 (Scott no. 1364). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.6American Folk Art series, 19771995: Pueblo pottery (Scott nos. 17069). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.7American Folk Art series, 19771995: Pacific Northwest masks (Scott nos. 183437). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.8Legends of American Music series, 19931999: John Coltrane (Scott no. 2991). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.9Civil War pane, 1995 (Scott nos. 2975a2975t). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 8.10Legends of the West pane, 1994 (Scott nos. 2869a2869t). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
FIGURE 9.1A cacheted George Washington Bicentennial FDC, January 9, 1932. Source: Handlers collection.
FIGURE 10.1Project Mercury stamp, 1962 (Scott no. 1193). Source: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
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