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This report provides information about the Common Questions About Postage and Stamps where congressional staff may learn more about these topics.

El presente artículo pretende realizar un análisis desde el Diseño en Comunicación Visual de una selección de estampillas emitidas en la Argentina desde 1856 hasta 2017. Se estudiarán, de manera anacrónica, algunos ejemplares postales, para establecer relaciones entre los elementos formales presentes en las imágenes de estas piezas gráficas y los acontecimientos históricos, políticos, sociales y culturales referenciados en las mismas. Para ello, se tendrán en consideración las distintas miradas historiográficas en cada época. ; This article intends to carry out an analysis from the Design in Visual Communication of a selection of stamps issued in Argentina from 1856 to 2017. Some postal copies will be studied in an anachronistic way, trying to establish relations between the formal compositional elements of the images of these pieces graphics, in connection with the historical, political, social and cultural events referenced in them. For this, the different historiographical views present in each era will be taken into consideration. ; Sección: Artículos ; Facultad de Bellas Artes

Abstract. Postage stamps may be seen as tiny transmitters of the dominant ideologies of the state destined for the imagined community of the nation. The issuing of stamps, starting in the nineteenth century, and the postal reforms that accompanied this, greatly contributed to the 'communicative efficiency' of national communities and made a significant contribution to nation‐building. The imagery of stamps promotes the dominant discourses of a particular nationalism, recalls historical triumphs and myths and defines the national territory in maps or landscapes. Issuing authorities also print stamps for sale to a large, epistemic community of philatelists and this has been of particular importance to many colonial authorities and impoverished post‐colonial states. This article addresses these themes by focusing on the stamps of Portugal and its Empire. The representation of images of women on the stamps of the Portuguese monarchy, the Republic, the Estado Novo and the modern Portuguese Republic, as well as in the former Empire, all confirm the patriarchal construction of Portuguese nationalism as well as a focus on the 'great discoveries'.

AbstractThere are few dozen areas in dispute around the world, where the borders have not been agreed by the involved parties or by the international community. The dispute over the Israeli border is particularly complex as it not only presents disagreement between the opposing sides in play but also in the international arena and within the Israeli political system and society. This paper examines one way in which the State of Israel is trying to define its borders through postage stamps. The argument raised is that Israel issues stamps that deal with disputed territorial areas in accordance with the ideology of the ruling party of a certain period, as well as the respective social consensus surrounding a particular area. Our findings support this argument and find three meta‐messages incorporated into the stamps, including the historical connection between the State of Israel and the land of Israel, unified Jerusalem, and the Christian connection to Jerusalem.

The text of this paper analyses the issue of political and territorial transformations in Central Europe as reflected in postage stamps issued from 1918 to the present day. Stamp production, as a historical source, also reflects modern history in the form of jubilee issues and the choice of the subjects presented, thereby contributing towards the shaping of our collective memory. This paper recommends their didactic use in history teaching on the basis of an account and analysis of these subjects. The process described leads to an effective alternative educational medium that strengthens interdisciplinary co-operation between school history teaching and media studies.