Campaign Button

Object/Artifact

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Vermont Historical Society

pin

Name/Title

Campaign Button

Entry/Object ID

2008.38.17

Description

Round button, striped red, white, and blue, with the sans-serif inscription, "MY FIRST VOTE/HARDING/IS FOR". (My first vote is for Harding.)

Context

Pin presumably from the presidential campaign of Warren Harding in 1920. No information about who the first-time voter was.

Acquisition

Accession

2008.38

Source or Donor

Adams, Alice Elizabeth Alger (1921-2007)

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

In memory of Joseph and Laura Algar and Raymond H. Adams

Made/Created

Date made

1919 - 1920

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Button, Campaign

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Button, Political

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Symbol, Political

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Belief Symbols

Nomenclature Class

Personal Symbols

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Material

Metal

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Harding, Warren Gamaliel (1865-1923)