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Representations and Iconography – Images of Finns and Finland in Stamps at the 1930s (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timo Ylimaunu. Paul R. Mullins. Tuuli S. Koponen.

In our paper, we will consider the development of nationalist material culture and the national iconography in Finland through postal stamps during the 1930s. Stamps were one media of the state to deliver its’ official national iconographic expressions. We will discuss what kind of images were used in the stamps and what kind of images the young national state delivered of itself to the outside world through stamps. Finland became independent at the 1917. The 1920s and 1930s were the period when...