Medallion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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