<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-viw">German-postal-covers-collection</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper type="filing">German postal covers collection</titleproper><titleproper>Guide to the German postal covers collection <num>MS 00287</num></titleproper></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Special Collections Research Center</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/logos/wm.jpg" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><p><date>2019-03-11</date></p><address><addressline>William &amp; Mary Special Collections Research Center</addressline><addressline>Earl Gregg Swem Library</addressline><addressline>400 Landrum Dr</addressline><addressline>Williamsburg, Virginia</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 757-221-3090</addressline><addressline>spcoll@wm.edu</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2025-05-15 13:04:49 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>English</langusage><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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      <corpname rules="local" source="local">Barranger &amp; Company, Inc.</corpname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">0.25 Linear Feet</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1893/1930" type="inclusive">1893-1930</unitdate>
    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1920/1923" type="bulk">1920-1923</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
<p>Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>115 envelopes, postcards, and letters from Germany with cancelled postage stamps.  The chronology of the cancelled postage illustrates the hyperinflation Germany experienced, especially immediately following World War I.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of Barranger &amp; Company, Inc., 2019.</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>German postal covers collection, 1893-1930, bulk 1920-1923, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary libraries.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject authfilenumber="sh85066112" source="Library of Congress Subject Headings">Inflation (Finance)</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="sh2008123139" source="Library of Congress Subject Headings">Inflation (Finance) -- Germany</subject>
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