“One of the best advertising mediums the country can have:” Postage Stamps and National Identity in Canada, New Zealand and Australia
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines the transformation of postage stamp imagery in Canada, New Zealand and Australia from the late 19th century to the 1990s. It documents the manner in which this imagery evolved from a predominately ethnic representation during the first half of the 20th century to a preponderance of civic–nationalistic designs in the post-1960s period. By highlighting the largely similar ways in which the governments of these three nations used postage stamps to guide and reflect the revision of their respective national identities, the article seeks to encourage greater comparative work among scholars examining the political and cultural histories of these nations. It also emphasizes the utility of recognizing postage stamps as rich primary sources of material culture that can facilitate comparative research that focuses on broad temporal and geographic parameters.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it