Name/Title
Button, CampaignEntry/Object ID
1977.5.3aTags
Multiple items in 1 recordDescription
Note: This is listed on the registration sheet as: assorted political buttons, keys & etc. in small tin box. The box and keys have not been found. This record does contain 10 buttons.
Note: All items in this accession should be located and put together in a box.
Multiple objects including two Dwight Eisenhower presidential campaign buttons were included in this object number when received by the museum in 1977. The two metal buttons are circular and have a 0.75" diameter. The background is stripped: red on top, white in the middle and blue on bottom. There is a single white star on the red stripe and one on the blue stripe. Text on the white stripe reads "We Like Ike."
Also includes one Red Cross lapel pin with a tab back. The lapel pin is from the Red Cross during World War II. The pin has a red cross symbol on the front.
Two baseball buttons, one from the Cubs and one from the Cincinnati Redlegs. The Redlegs button is from the 1950s. The button has a blue background with a white C and red text that reads, "Red Legs". The Cubs button has a blue background with a white circle inside it and red text that reads, "Cubs".
Three Liberty Loan buttons with a blue background and white text that reads, "V" in the middle and "Liberty Loans" around the edges. The buttons were from around 1917, during World War I. The buttons were part of a government effort to sell war bonds. The buttons were given to people who purchased the bonds to show their patriotism. The text printed on the back of these butons reads, "Made by/ American/ Art Works,/ Coshocton, Ohio". These pins each measure 0.5" (diam).
Also included are two small blue buttons with white text, "Work/ for the/ Blue" on the front. These buttons were produced by Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati. The buttons may have been part of the Blue Button Army, a Christian temperance movement around 1910. The back of the pins has text printed on them that reads, "The Standard Publishing Company/ Cincinatti/ Made in U.S.A.". These pins measure 0.5" (diam).Collection
Permanent CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1952 - 1956Notes
Date: 1954 circaLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term
Button, CampaignNomenclature Secondary Object Term
Button, PoliticalNomenclature Primary Object Term
Symbol, PoliticalNomenclature Sub-Class
Belief SymbolsNomenclature Class
Personal SymbolsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Political CampaignsRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Dwight D. EisenhowerProvenance
Notes
These items all belonged to Mrs. Adams father. John M. Quindry, born April 23, 1878. See obituary in Object sheet file. Mrs. Adams and husband, Harold, moved to Broomfield in approx. 1974.