{"id":863,"date":"2016-02-05T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=863"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:39:36","slug":"galkin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/collections\/galkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert T. Galkin Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1990, Robert Galkin (class of 1949) donated his international stamp collection to Brown University Library. This collection includes stamps from a largely encyclopedic selection of countries, ranging from the beginnings of global stamp production in the 1840s to 1990. In accordance with the donor&#8217;s wishes, the collection is not enlarged. In addition to stamps, the Galkin Collection holds various postal history materials, such as a small collection of commemorative Rhode Island covers (envelopes) and a collection of hand-drawn patriotic covers created by New Bedford, Massachusetts artist Clarence de Montigny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1990, Robert Galkin (class of 1949) donated his international stamp collection to Brown University Library. This collection includes stamps from a largely encyclopedic selection of countries, ranging from the beginnings of global stamp production in the 1840s to 1990. In accordance with the donor&#8217;s wishes, the collection is not enlarged. In addition to stamps, <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/collections\/galkin\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":858,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863\/revisions\/1202"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}