Button

Name/Title

Button

Entry/Object ID

G91.140

Description

Cardboard box of vegetable ivory button samples showing product and manufacturing process; top card has 8 different buttons showing coloring, finish methods. Underneath are compartments with marked examples of whole nut, various stages,even scraps and sawdust! Box top reads “Compliments of German-American Button Co. Rochester NY Sat.” Penciled underneath top board: “Saturday Mar.12 1910.”

Collection

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Category

Notion

Made/Created

Date made

1910

Lexicon

Search Terms

Buttons, Sampler, Rochester, NY, Vegetable, Ivory