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| Sarah Hovde joined the Folger as a cataloger in January 2014. She works primarily with modern materials (i.e., works created or produced after 1830). | | Sarah Hovde was a Folger cataloger from January 2014 to March 2020. She worked primarily with modern materials (i.e., works created or produced after 1830). |
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| DRAFT article on Postal and philatelic materials at the Folger
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| This article introduces the breadth of postal and philatelic materials held by the Folger, and the cataloging practices used to describe them.
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| The Folger collection includes a small amount of postal and philatelic materials, from souvenir postcards to panes of stamps.
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| ==Glossary==
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| * Cachet
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| * First day cover
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| * Franking
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| * Pane
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| * Se-tenant
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| ==Finding materials==
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| Postal materials are classified in several ways, and are easiest to find in [[Hamnet]] with a genre search. Use the terms below to search the "Genre/Form" browse or keyword searches on the Basic Search tab of Hamnet, or the "Genre/Form" search on the Advanced Search tab. You can also find some materials by searching for the subject "Cinderella materials".
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| : Postage stamps
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| : First day covers
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| : Envelopes
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| : Artistamps
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| : Aerogrammes
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| : Postcards
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| : Postal cards
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| : Cinderella materials (Philately)
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| ==Cataloging==
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| Postal materials may be cataloged as visual materials or as manuscripts, depending on whether they have been used as mail objects. (They are significant as artifacts either way, but in the latter case the writing will usually be of greater relevance to the Folger [[Collection development policy|collection]].)
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| ==Reference works==
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| * Bureau of Canadian Archivists. "Philatelic records," chap. 12 in ''Rules for archival description'' [http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/rad/radcomplete_july2008.pdf pdf] (Ottawa: Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1990).
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| * Ozeran, Megan. "Managing metadata for philatelic materials" [https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/10022/8710 pdf], in ''Information technology and libraries,'' Vol. 36 no. 3 (2017), 7-17.
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| * Roberts, Peter J. "Philatelic materials in archival collections: their appraisal, preservation, and description" [http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.70.1.w3742751w5344275 pdf], in ''The American archivist,'' vol. 70 (Spring/Summer 2007), 70-92.
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| [[Category:Folger staff]] | | [[Category:Folger staff]] |