User:SarahHovde

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).

DRAFT article on Postal and philatelic materials at the Folger

This article introduces the breadth of postal and philatelic materials held by the Folger, and the cataloging practices used to describe them. The Folger collection includes a small amount of postal and philatelic materials, from souvenir postcards to panes of stamps.

Glossary

Aerogramme
Cachet
Cinderella materials
First day cover
Franking
Pane
Postal card
Postcard
Se-tenant

Finding materials

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".

Postage stamps

First day covers

Envelopes

Artistamps

Aerogrammes

Postcards

Postal cards

Cinderella materials (Philately)

Cataloging

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.)

Transcribe title and statement of responsibility from the source if available; otherwise, devise a title. Only transcribe a statement of responsibility when it applies to all items in a set.

Transcribe an edition statement if one is present, but do not repeat if it is already present in the title.

Provide issue data in a 258 field in the format [name of jurisdiction] : [denomination], [additional denomination, etc.], e.g. 258 ‡a Cayman Islands : ‡b 6 pence 258 ‡a Liberia : ‡b 3c, 6c, 10c, 15c, 31c, 60c, 80c, $2

Provide publication information if available.

Reference works

Bureau of Canadian Archivists. "Philatelic records," chap. 12 in Rules for archival description [pdf] (Ottawa: Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1990).
Ozeran, Megan. "Managing metadata for philatelic materials" [pdf], in Information technology and libraries, Vol. 36 no. 3 (2017), 7-17.
Roberts, Peter J. "Philatelic materials in archival collections: their appraisal, preservation, and description" [pdf], in The American archivist, vol. 70 (Spring/Summer 2007), 70-92.