Medallion
Classification:
Date:
1920-1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/4 x 2 3/4 in. diameter
Description:
A copper colored metal medallion with a rough textured edge and face. Embossed on both sides in a central textured field "Ley", encircled by the words "The Seal Of Service/ Fred. T. Ley & Co. Inc."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3357
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
51903
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Medallion
Classification:
Date:
1928
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/4 x 2 7/8 in. diameter
Description:
A bronze medallion with a relief on one side of workers operating complex engraving machinery with gears and pulleys and drive belts surrounded by the words "Medallic Art Company/ Artisitic Medals Plaques/ Insignia and Galvanos/ All Dies Made Direct From Sculptors Models/ 210 East Fifty-First Street/ New York". On the reverse, a worker operating a pantographic lathe, following the contours of a model of the head of the Statue of Liberty to produce a replica of another size. It is embossed "Statuary/ Bas Reliefs/ Reduced and Enlarged/ MCMII/ MCMXXVII".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3356
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1928
eMuseum Object ID:
51902
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Medallion
Classification:
Date:
1920-1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/4 x 3 in. diameter
Description:
A bronze medallion with a relief of Statue of Liberty and the Capitol Building surrounded by objects representing modern industry including a printing press, a cog, and a building that resembles a power station, all below the word "Liberty" with radiating rays. The reverse is embossed with a huge tri-pod supporting an eternal flame over workers and machinery. The legs of the tripod and the cauldron holding the flame read "Freedom/ Free Private Enterprise/ Civil and Religious Liberty/ Representative Democracy". Encircling the image "The National Association of Manufacturers".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3355
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
51901
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Medallion
Classification:
Date:
1936
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/4 x 3 in. diameter
Description:
A bronze medallion with a very raised relief of two men's faces, surrounded by the words "Whitall Tatum Company/ John M. Whitall 1800-1877/ Edward Tatum 1821-1883/ 1836 Centennial 1936". The reverse is inset embossed with a scene of a large riverside factory complex and a sail boat.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3354
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1936
eMuseum Object ID:
51900
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Token
Classification:
Date:
1880-1900
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 7/8 in. diameter
Description:
A brass coin or token embossed on one side with a demon or gargoyle head, with horns, webbed ears like batwings and two flaring trumpets issuing from its mouth, encircled by the words "Magie/ Dinkl an Basch". On the reverse "Von/ F.J. Basch/ Professor/ D. Magie/ Jeden Abend Vorstellung D. Physik Magie U. Optik". Advertisement for regular evening performances by a magician or illusionist.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3353
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
51899
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin
Classification:
Date:
1930-1960
Medium:
Metal, enamel
Dimensions:
1/8 x 3/8 in. diameter
Description:
A tiny circular lapel pin, enameled white with a black central design crossed by the words in gold "International Typographical Union".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3352
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1960
eMuseum Object ID:
51898
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1944
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A white pinback campaign button from the 1944 election resulting in FDR's third term, from the anti-Roosevelt factions, printed in red "No/ Third Internationale/ Third Reich/ Third Term".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3744
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1944
eMuseum Object ID:
51897
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1944
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A white pinback campaign button from the 1944 election resulting in FDR's third term, from the anti-Roosevelt factions, printed in blue "Roosevelt For Ex-President".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3743
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1944
eMuseum Object ID:
51896
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1940
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
Two dark blue pinback campaign buttons from the 1940 election resulting in FDR's third term, from the anti-Roosevelt factions, both printed in white "No Third Term".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3742
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
51895
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1940
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A pinback campaign button with a blue border around a red central field with two photo lithographic portraits, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and one of Henry A. Wallace, his vice-presidential candidate in 1940. Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-40; Vice President of the United States, 1941-45; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1945-46; and a Progressive candidate for President of the United States, 1948.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3740
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
51894
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
















