Button, Campaign
- Object Name:
- Button, Campaign
- Object ID:
- 2001.017.10
- Creator:
- Whitehead & Hoag Company -- Manufacturer
- Place of Origin:
- Newark, NJ
- Date:
- 1900
- Description:
- Presidential campaign pin button, William McKinley, 1900. Circular, paper and celluloid on metal. Head and shoulders image of McKinley; sepia with flesh tone on face, gold background. "WM MCKINLEY" on right shoulder. "COPYRIGHT 1900" under left shoulder. Paper insert in back, black letters on white background: "Made by / The / Whitehead & Hoag Co., / Newark, N. J., U.S.A. / Patented / July 17, 1894 / April 14, 1896 / July 21, 1896". Purple union bug underneath printing: "TYPOGRAPHICAL / UNION LABEL / NEWARK, NJ 103". No pin on back.
- Material:
- Metal
Paper
Celluloid - Dimensions:
- D-0.15 Dia-1.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Ralph W. Holt of Nashua, NH (b.1883) was a building contractor. He served seven years in the NH National Guard and was chief trumpeter on the staff of General J. E. Tolles. He held ward and city offices, was a member of the Legislature of 1915, and a delegate to the 1918 NH Constitutional Convention.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary McEvoy Barrett
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