America's stamps : the story of one hundred years of U.S. postage stamps

Date:

©1947.

Author:

Petersham, Maud, 1890-1971.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH P484 A44 LOCAL

Publisher:

The Macmillan Company

Abstract:

The stories behind various stamps from colonial times to the 1940s are capsule history lessons about the United States.

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm

Curator Notes:

1947 Macmillan (NY) imprint, c 1947, inscribed 1947, [with dust jacket from 4th printing, 1960]; signed by authors (?); spine titles and front cover titles and vignette printed in black on blue cloty

Subjects:

Postage stamps United States Juvenile literature, Postage stamps United States, Postage stamps, Postzegels. gtt, and ARTE POSTAL. larpcal

Genres/Forms:

Juvenile works and Juvenile literature New York (State) New York 1947. rbgenr

Geographic Terms:

United States