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The philatelic synopsis is the short document given to the philatelic judges in advance of a stamp show to help them prepare to judge the exhibit. This often misunderstood and underrated document can dramatically shape how an exhibit is received by the judges and can have a big effect on an exhibitor's medal level. This e book describes, with full color examples, how to provide judges with what Andrew calls a "guided tour": an in-depth description of the exhibit, section by section, giving the judges an understanding of the exhibit and how the pieces fit together. While the content of an exhibit and its synopsis are what matters the most, how that information is presented to the viewer can be is just as critical. It helps to think of "presentation" not just in the visual sense, but also how the overall message is conveyed. Andrew McFarlane is one of the most skilled practitioners in the preparation of synopsis documents in the US philatelic exhibiting community. This book is a must have for philatelic exhibitors.
Table of Contents; Illustrations;Foreword by S. Diane Shaw;Acknowledgments;Introduction;1 Online Exhibitions versus Digital Collections; 2 The Idea; 3 Executing the Exhibition Idea; 4 The Staff; 5 Technical Issues: Digitizing; 6 Technical Issues: Markup Languages; 7 Technical Issues: Programming, Scripting, Databases, and Accessibility; 8 Design; 9 Online Exhibitions: Case Studies and Awards; 10 Conclusion: Online with the Show!; Appendixes;A Sample Online Exhibition Proposal; B Sample Exhibition Script; C Guidelines for Reproducing Works from Exhibition Websites; D Suggested Database Structure for Online Exhibitions; E Timeline for Contracted Online Exhibitions; F Dublin Core Metadata of an Online Exhibition; G The Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards; H Bibliography of Exhibitions (Gallery and Virtual);
Winner of the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities In the age of digital communications, it can be difficult to imagine a time when the meaning and imagery of stamps was politically volatile. While millions of Americans collected stamps from the 1880s to the 1940s, Stamping American Memory is the first scholarly examination of stamp collecting culture and how stamps enabled citizens to engage their federal government in conversations about national life in early-twentieth-century America. By examining the civic conversations that emerged around stamp subjects and imagery, this work brings to light the role that these underexamined historical artifacts have played in carrying political messages. Sheila A. Brennan crafts a fresh synthesis that explores how the US postal service shaped Americans’ concepts of national belonging, citizenship, and race through its commemorative stamp program. Designed to be saved as souvenirs, commemoratives circulated widely and stood as miniature memorials to carefully selected snapshots from the American past that also served the political needs of small interest groups. Stamping American Memory brings together the histories of the US postal service and the federal government, collecting, and philately through the lenses of material culture and memory to make a significant contribution to our understanding of this period in American history.