Campaign Button

Object/Artifact

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Vermont Historical Society

button

Name/Title

Campaign Button

Entry/Object ID

2013.9.4

Description

Red button with the white inscription, "Re-Elect Bernie 2004". Three lines go across the middle of the button, flanking the year. The "i" is dotted with a star, and there is a second star on the three-line stripe. There is a small oval maker's mark and the number 7 at the bottom of the button.

Context

Produced for Bernie Sanders' 2004 campaign for reelection to the US House of Representatives

Acquisition

Accession

2013.9

Source or Donor

Donovan, Paul J.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

In memory of Valerie Ball, friend, activist, walker

Made/Created

Date made

2004

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

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Diameter

1-1/2 in

Material

Metal

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Sanders, Bernard (b. 1941)

Related Places

Place

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America