WAMR 88.5 American University Radio

Washington, D.C.: American University Radio. Presumed First Issuance thus. Bookmark. Very good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 2 inches. American University Radio (WAMU 88.5) on front of bookmark on colorful (10 colors) background; Information on Washington, D.C. as one of the most well-read cities in the country on the back of he bookmark. WAMU 88.5 is the leading public radio station for NPR news and information in the greater Washington D.C. area. WAMU is member-supported, professionally-staffed, and licensed to American University. Since 1961, WAMU 88.5 has provided programming to an audience of listeners that now totals almost 1 million listeners on-air, online, and on demand. Deeply committed to the D.C. metro area, WAMU 88.5 produces regular and special programming that reflects the unique environment of our region. A�bookmark�is a thin marker, commonly made of�card,�leather, or�fabric, used to keep a reader's place in a�book�and to enable them to easily return to it. According to new results of the research done on the history of bookmarks, there are indications that bookmarks have accompanied codices since their first emergence in the 1st century AD. �The earliest existing bookmark dates from the 6th century AD and it is made of ornamented leather lined with vellum on the back and was attached with a leather strap to the cover of a Coptic codex. Bookmarks were used throughout the medieval period,�consisting usually of a small parchment strip attached to the edge of�folio�(or a piece of cord attached to headband). The first detached, and therefore collectible, bookmarkers began to appear in the 1850s. One of the first references to these is found in Mary Russell Mitford's�Recollections of a Literary Life�(1852. Historical bookmarks can be very valuable, and are sometimes collected along with other paper�ephemera. By the 1860s, attractive machine-woven markers were being manufactured. One of the earliest was produced by J.&J. Cash to mark the�death�of�Albert, Prince Consort, in 1861. Thomas Stevens of Coventry soon became preeminent in the field and claimed to have nine hundred different designs. �Woven silk bookmarks were very appreciated gifts in the�Victorian Era�and Stevens seemed to make one for every occasion and celebration. By the 1880s the production of woven silk markers was declining, and printed markers made of stiff paper or cardboard began to appear in significant numbers. This development paralleled the wider availability of books themselves, and the range of available bookmarkers soon expanded dramatically. Modern bookmarks are available in a huge variety of materials in a multitude of designs and styles. Many are made of cardboard or heavy paper, but they are also constructed of paper, ribbon, fabric, felt, steel, wire, tin, beads, wood, plastic, vinyl, silver, gold, and other precious metals, some decorated with gemstones.