Name: Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter (en Inglés)
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Author: Dambrogio, Jana ; Smith, Daniel Starza ; The Unlocking History Research Group
ISBN: 9780262049276

portada Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter (en Inglés)

Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Daniel Starza Smith

Jana Dambrogio

Editorial

MIT Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

544

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780262049276

Categorías

Estudios de museología y patrimonio
Estudios de comunicación
Historia de la tecnología y la ingeniería

Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter (en Inglés)

Daniel Starza Smith (Autor) · Jana Dambrogio (Autor) · MIT Press · Tapa Dura

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The rich history of a centuries-old document security technology--folding and securing a letter into its own envelope for delivery--and a comprehensive guide to learning how to make your own locked letters. Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, how did people secure their private letters? The answer is letterlocking--the ingenious process of folding, slitting, and securing a letter with a strip of paper and sealing wax so that it becomes its own envelope. The practice, used by historical figures ranging from Elizabeth I and her spymaster to Japanese samurai lords, and nearly entirely forgotten, was an everyday activity for centuries, across cultures, borders, and social classes. In Letterlocking, Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, experts who have pioneered the field over the last ten years, tell the fascinating story of letterlocking within epistolary history, drawing on real historical examples from all over the world. Fully illustrated with more than 500 images and diagrams, including a dictionary of hundreds of technical terms and concepts, Letterlocking describes the essential precepts of the practice and provides sources of practical support needed for beginner and advanced users of letterlocking. The authors also advocate for the understanding of letterlocking and for its inclusion in a range of intellectual and cultural enquiries, from conservation science and archival databases to historical television shows. By the end of the book, readers will learn how to make locked letters, study letters that may have been locked, and categorize those letters using systems the authors developed while studying over 250,000 historic letters. Letterlocking will be accompanied by a website, freely accessible scholarly articles, and instructional videos and diagrams, as well as foldable, tear-out sheets with instructions on how to fold and lock a letter.