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The Picture Postcard As Souvenir And
An Entangled Object An Entangled Object: Indeed, there is one who corresponds with me too, but he's so foolish that The Picture Postcard as he writes letters. Did you ever hear Souvenir and Collectible, about anything so ridiculous? As if I care for a good-for-nothing letter! I Exchange and Ritual cannot put a letter into my album, can Communication I? What nonsense! When I get a real boyfriend I will simply insist that he send me the nicest postcards there are Bjarne Rogan to be bought, instead of pestering me University of Oslo, with those dull letters. Norway (Reflections of an anonymous Nor- wegian girl, "Brevkort og Backfischer" 1903, 41) Abstract The picture postcard craze went hand in ne of the most striking con- hand with the rise of a new consumer cul- sumption phenomena at the ture, a more affluent society, and a new beginning of the 20th century O 1 middle class. Modernity is the common was the craze for the picture postcard. denominator and the frame of reference. The vogue started between 1895 and However, these cards served a multiplic- 1900 and faded out between 1915 and ity of uses and functions including as col- 1920. These two decades have been lectibles, ritual communication, and gift called the Golden Age of the picture exchanges, and were enmeshed in a tangle postcard, and with good reason. The of relationships. What characterized the hunger for cards seized both young and craze for the picture postcard a century ago old, males and females, in Europe and and guaranteed its enormous spread and the USA, and on other continents as well. -
Guide to the Beatrice Litzinger Postcard Collection, 1900-1990
Guide to the Beatrice Litzinger Postcard Collection, 1900-1990 NMAH.AC.0530 Ray Mellett December 1999 Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 3 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 2 General............................................................................................................................. 3 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 2 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 3 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 5 Series 1: Subjects.................................................................................................... 5 Series 2: Oversize Postcards................................................................................. 20 Series -
Guide to the Colin De Land and Pat Hearn Library Collection MSS.012 Hannah Mandel; Collection Processed by Ann Butler, Ryan Evans and Hannah Mandel
CCS Bard Archives Phone: 845.758.7567 Center for Curatorial Studies Fax: 845.758.2442 Bard College Email: [email protected] Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 Guide to the Colin de Land and Pat Hearn Library Collection MSS.012 Hannah Mandel; Collection processed by Ann Butler, Ryan Evans and Hannah Mandel. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on February 06, 2019 . Describing Archives: A Content Standard Guide to the Colin de Land and Pat Hearn Library Collection MSS.012 Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Biographical / Historical ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Scope and Contents ................................................................................................................................................. 6 Arrangement .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Administrative Information ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Related Materials ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 Controlled Access Headings .................................................................................................................................... -
The Christian Science Monitor and the Kidnapping of Jill Carroll CSJ-08
CSJ‐ 08 ‐ 0012.0 A Life on the Line: The Christian Science Monitor and the kidnapping of Jill Carroll On Saturday, January 7, 2006, Christian Science Monitor Managing Editor Marshall Ingwerson was woken by a 4:30 a.m. phone call—and it was not good news. A Monitor stringer in Baghdad, Jill Carroll, had been kidnapped. No one knew who had taken her, nor whether the kidnappers were motivated by money or ideology. Kidnappings had become only too common in Iraq; journalists in particular were favorite targets. The Monitor itself had even experienced another freelancer kidnapped and killed. Ingwerson knew the paper would have to make decisions quickly. Trying to manage a kidnapping in any context was a challenge, and involved a staggering array of players. That Carroll was in Iraq only multiplied the numbers. There were the many editors at the Monitor, Carrollʹs family members, news media, US government agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. There were also the bureau in Baghdad, the US military authorities in Iraq, Iraqi government officials and purported go‐betweens to terrorist organizations. Monitor editors had to decide not only whom to work with, but when to call on which group or individual. As a start, Ingwerson and a few key editors each took specific responsibilities. One represented the Monitor in public; another worked with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its counterparts abroad; another dealt with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and still another stayed in constant communication with Carrollʹs family members. The reporters in the Baghdad bureau were also eager to assist in any way possible. -
Stamps and Postcards – Science Or Play?
Copyright © Museum Tusculanums Press Stamps and Postcards – Science or Play? A Longitudinal Study of a Gendered Collecting Field Bjarne Rogan Rogan, Bjarne 2001: Stamps and Postcards – Science or Play? A Longitudinal Study of a Gendered Collecting Field. – Ethnologia Europaea 31: 37–54. The point of departure is a case study of a French collecting couple, with a focus on their very different ways of collecting stamps. I shall then go back to mid 19th century and follow the different modes of collecting postal history up to our time. These collecting modes depend on societal norms for gender patterns as well as on dominant scientific paradigms. The aim is twofold; I want to point out the impact of scientific thought on everyday life, even on leisure activities like collecting, and I want to trace some lines of development in the history of gender and material culture. Much literature on collecting has been published during the last decade, but next to nothing on its most widespread branch, that of stamps and postal history, a hobby with hundreds of millions of adherents in the 1990s and an annual economic turnover of around ten billion US dollars. Collecting habits reflect ideologies of order and discipline, of knowledge and methodology, and of gender. A longitudinal study of the history of postal history collecting may shed some light on these issues.1 Prof. Dr. Bjarne Rogan, University of Oslo/La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris. 54, Boulevard Raspail, F-75260 Paris Cedex 6, France. E-mail: rogan@msh- paris.fr, [email protected] Collecting Stamps on the Treshhold of When Mr X, her husband, died 7 years ago, a New Millenium he left her a large stamp collection. -
Canadianstampnews.Ca an Essential Resource for the CANADIAN Advanced and Beginning Collector
www.canadianstampnews.ca An essential resource for the CANADIAN advanced and beginning collector Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/canadianstampnews Follow us on Twitter @trajanpublisher STAMP NEWS Follow us on Instagram @trajan_csn Volume 43 • Number 26 April 16 - 29, 2019 $4.50 Snelson wins again, this time with British airmail, at annual NTSC Exhibition By Jesse Robitaille Snelson, who has collected British un- For the second consecutive year, Ken derpaid international mail for more Snelson won the Grand Award – this than 25 years, also won the Max Rosen- time for an exhibit on early 20th-century thal Award for best postal history ex- British underpaid airmail – at the an- hibit. nual North Toronto Stamp Club (NTSC) About a decade ago, while visiting Exhibition. the Post Office Archives in London, An eight-frame exhibit, “British un- England, Snelson found a file of corre- derpaid intercontinental air mail to spondence to many empire and foreign WWII” displayed impressive treatment, post offices. which includes the organization and de- “This provided insight into the treat- velopment of the subject, according to ment of underpaid air mail and infor- national-level judge and chief of the mation for the write-up of the exhibit. jury Rodney Paige. Many of the items in the exhibit would More than 1,100 people came through the doors of the Spring 2019 “There was so much information con- have been diverted to surface mail un- National Postage Stamp and Coin Show on March 23-24. It was a record tained in this exhibit from across the der UPU (Universal Postal Union) rules attendance for the biannual show, the first of which was held in May 2016. -
Women's Travel Narratives in The
NAVIGATING IDENTITIES: WOMEN’S TRAVEL NARRATIVES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Heather Lynn Sprong Bachelor of Arts, Washington and Jefferson College, 2001 Master of Arts, University of Pittsburgh, 2006 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 2013 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH DIETRICH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES This dissertation was presented by Heather Lynn Sprong It was defended on July 23, 2013 and approved by Neepa Majumdar, PhD, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Philip Smith, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature Joshua Ellenbogen, PhD, Associate Professor of Art History Dissertation Director: Troy Boone, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature ii Copyright © by Heather Lynn Sprong 2013 iii NAVIGATING IDENTITIES: WOMEN’S TRAVEL NARRATIVES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Heather Lynn Sprong, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2013 This dissertation argues that diurnal travel narratives written and published in the nineteenth century participated in the discourse of imperialism by articulating empire’s influence in terms that readers outside of the realm of politics could understand: impact on daily life. Working primarily with texts written by women such as Emily Eden, Fanny Eden, and Emily Innes who traveled with governing members of the British colonial ruling class, this dissertation asserts that the minutiae included in their narratives—everything from the food writers ate and the people they met to worries about their inkstands and which furniture their pets favored—expose, but also act upon, the discourse of imperialism. Writing functions both as a product and as an activity in these journals, and I contend that its double role constitutes the crux of their power as agents of imperial discourse. -
Panama Canal Bibliography – American Period 1904-1999
Panama Canal Bibliography – American Period 1904-1999 Elizabeth H. Bemis, Ph.D. March 2019 The goal of this bibliography is to work towards a comprehensive list of books published on the American period of the Panama Canal, 1904-1999. It is impossible to completely isolate the American period from the history and impact of what came before and its influence on what has come after, so some key sources that focus on other peripheral topics are also included to provide a more comprehensive picture of the material available to scholars and the interested reader. The most prominent of these closely related subjects are the Panama Canal Railroad, U.S. interest in a canal before 1904, the French canal, political situations surrounding the canal, and important figures in the Canal’s history. The core of the bibliography was built from the Panama Canal Museum Collection of the University of Florida Libraries which has afforded the inclusion of many rare and unique items. A list of critical archival and library holdings and serial publications that don’t technically fall under the parameters set above, but are important resources, are included after the end of the formal bibliography. A small list of websites that provide teaching resources can also be found after the formal bibliography. Some book chapters are included, but only those encountered during the process of looking through other sources for books; they were not sought out. The same applies to published government documents. This bibliography does not include any journal articles. 10 Year Report, the Panama Canal Commission: FY 1980 to FY 1989: A Decade of Progress in Canal Operations and Treaty Implementation. -
Le Corbusier's Postcard Collection: Poetical Assemblage As a “Porous” Classification System
2016 | Volume IV, Issue 1 | Pages 3.1-3.18 Le Corbusier’s Postcard Collection: Poetical Assemblage as a “Porous” Classification System Luis Burriel Bielza, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville ABSTRACT the architect.3 This text strives to highlight their real Le Corbusier collected about 2,300 postcards value by two different means: First, proposing a new throughout all of his life but he always kept them assemblage and second, placing this collection in secretly stored in his apartment. They are nowadays connection with other creative tools. The postcards held in the archives of the Fondation Le Corbusier, are nowadays stored at the Fondation Le Corbusier, filed by geographic origin. However, this system is classified following a typical category within not suited to unravel its signification. Through a new deltiology: geographical origin. However, when associative layout, this article strives to highlight its studying some items of this collection during my proper value and aspires to place them fully connect- PhD research (focusing on the project for the parish ed to his other creative tools. Accompanied by his church of Saint Pierre in Firminy), the relations I paintings, sketches, writings, and architecture, they uncovered gave me the certitude that its scope could will all reveal Le Corbusier’s capacity to synthesize hardly be articulated after its current classification, subjects and concepts regardless of time and space. especially given the fact that the architect did not Stability and transition are the guiding keys to jump have any particular training in this discipline. This from image to image, at the same time charged with unfamiliarity might have led him to cast a superficial the power of evoking the tradition and building the analysis on the matter, but this distance also allowed present. -
The Future of Iraq: Democracy, Civil War, Or Chaos?
THE FUTURE OF IRAQ: DEMOCRACY, CIVIL WAR, OR CHAOS? *By Michael Rubin Pessimism regarding Iraq's future is unwarranted. Iraq faces many challenges, but success is still within reach. After 35 years of dictatorship, Iraqis have embraced a political process emphasizing compromise and coalition. They have successfully held elections and drawn up a constitution. Political brinkmanship is not necessarily a precursor to civil war. That said, Iraqi democracy faces many challenges. First and foremost is the insurgency. Premature reconciliation and concessions offered in the face of violence, however, will backfire. Neighboring states also may undermine Iraq's security, necessitating a long-term U.S. military presence. This article was originally written for a project and conference on "After the Iraq War: Strategic and Political Changes in Europe and the Middle East," co-sponsored by the GLORIA Center and The Military Centre for Strategic Studies (CeMiSS) of Italy. More than eight million Iraqis braved bombs Iraqis move toward their constitutional and bullets to vote on January 30, 2005, in referendum and national elections for a full- Iraq's first free elections in a half-century. term government, the greatest threat they face President George W. Bush praised the Iraqi will be from outside powers seeking to people from the White House, declaring, "In destabilize Iraq by proxy. The key for success great numbers, and under great risk, Iraqis will be to abide by, without exception, a have shown their commitment to democracy. timeline for specific political milestones. By participating in free elections, the Iraqi Washington and the United Nations should people have firmly rejected the anti- not bend to pressure, be it from factions democratic ideology of terrorists."1 But in within Iraq or from interests outside, to alter subsequent weeks, talks bogged down, first the agreed framework. -
Islamic Liberation Theology
Islamic Liberation Theology Are we today witness to a renewed confrontation between ‘‘Islam and the West’’ or are the signs of an imperial domination of globalized capital versus new modes of resistance to it already evident? This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking on the clash of civilizations theory and global politics. In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long-running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves. The West is no longer a unified actor and Islam is ideologically depleted in its confrontation with colonialism. Rather, we are seeing the emergence of the United States as a lone superpower, and a confrontation between a form of imperial globalized capital and the rising need for a new Islamic theodicy. Expanding on his vast body of scholarship in reading political Islamism during the last quarter of a century, Dabashi here lays the groundwork for a progressive rethinking of the place of Islamic cosmopolitanism in navigating modes of legitimate resistance to globalized imperialism. The combination of political salience and theoretical force makes Islamic Liberation Theology a cornerstone of a whole new generation of thinking about political Islamism and a compelling read for anyone interested in contemporary Islam, current affairs and US foreign policy. Dabashi drives his well-supported and thoroughly documented points steadily forward in an earnest and highly readable style. Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Com- parative Literature at Columbia University in New York, USA. -
The Calm Before the Storm the British Experience in Southern Iraq
The Calm before the Storm The British Experience in Southern Iraq Michael Knights and Ed Williams Policy Focus #66 | February 2007 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any infor- mation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. © 2007 by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Published in 2007 in the United States of America by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1828 L Street NW, Suite 1050, Washington, DC 20036. Design by Daniel Kohan, Sensical Design and Communication Front cover: Supporters of the radical Shiite militia Jaish al-Mahdi march over a depiction of the British flag during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq, November 28, 2006. Copyright AP Wide World Photos/Nabil al-Jurani. From Ed Williams: To the Williams family in general, for making sure I was a reader, and to Dad in particular, for funding my education. To Laura and my other friends for putting up with my conversation, to my friends Larry Attree, Fergie May, and John McCarthy for their advice, and to my colleagues Dave Clark, Meg Williams, Paddy Ogilvy, Sarah Le Mesurier, and Eva Molyneux for their generous help and good company in recent years. About the Authors Michael Knights is a London-based Lafer international fellow of The Washington Institute, specializing in the military and security affairs of Iraq, Iran, and the Persian Gulf. He also serves as vice president of Olive Group’s Analysis and Assessments business, A2.