Representations and Iconography – Images of Finns and Finland in Stamps at the 1930s

Summary

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 the country healed its’ wounds from the devastating civil war at the 1918 and built up the nation state identity. We will discuss how the different pictorial motives illuminate the national identity and what kind of civic society was represented in stamps.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Archaeology Of Interwar Europe (1918-1939)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2018

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