Button, Campaign
- Object Name:
- Button, Campaign
- Object ID:
- 2001.017.13
- Creator:
- Baltimore Badge & Novelty Company -- Manufacturer
- Place of Origin:
- Baltimore, MD
- Date:
- 1904
- Description:
- Presidential campaign pin button, Theodore Roosevelt, 1904. Circular, paper and celluloid on metal. Head and shoulders photographic image of Roosevelt, 3/4 view; sepia tones. Paper insert in back, black printing on white: "MADE BY / BALTIMORE / BADGE & NOVELTY / -COMPANY- / BALTIMORE MD. / DESIGN PATENTED 10/1/01". Union bug below: "ALLIED PRINTING / TRADES / UNION / LABEL / COUNCIL / BALTIMORE MD. / 16". Brass pin on back.
- Material:
- Metal
Paper
Celluloid - Dimensions:
- D-0.1 Dia-0.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Ralph W. Holt (1883-1937) of Nashua, NH, was a building contractor. He served seven years in the N.H. 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 N.H. Constitutional Convention.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary McEvoy Barrett
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