Button, Campaign
- Object Name:
- Button, Campaign
- Object ID:
- 2001.017.11
- Creator:
- Whitehead & Hoag Company -- Manufacturer
- Place of Origin:
- Newark, NJ
- Date:
- 1900
- Description:
- Presidential campaign pin button, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, 1900. Circular, paper and celluloid on metal. Head and shoulders image of McKinley and Roosevelt; sepia with flesh tone on faces, golden brown background. Paper insert in back, black printing on white background: "THE / WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. / NEWARK N.J. / PATENTED / JULY 17, 1894 / APRIL 14, 1896. JULY 21, 1896"; union bug in center: "TYPOGRAPHICAL / UNION LABEL / NEWARK, NJ 103". Brass pin on back.
- Material:
- Metal
Paper
Celluloid - Dimensions:
- D-0.15 Dia-0.85 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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