Button, Campaign
- Object Name:
- Button, Campaign
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.124
- Creator:
Instrument Make - Date:
- 1932-1941
- Description:
- Presidential campaign pin button, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner. Circular brass button with blue background and gold five-pointed star, scroll, and border. "ROOSEVELT / GARNER / CLUB" in blue on star. "NEW HAMPSHIRE" in blue on scroll. Brass backing with safety pin soldered on.
- Material:
- Metal
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-0.25 Dia-0.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown.
The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Daniel T. Rowley and Elizabeth A. Rowley
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