Pin-back campaign button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1975-2005
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Description:
Blue text on white. MORGENTHAU
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.11
Gallery Label:
Robert M. Morgenthau (b. 1919) was District Attorney for New York County (the Borough of Manhattan) from 1975 until his retirement in 2009.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
2005
eMuseum Object ID:
68067
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1960-1980
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Description:
Blue text on white. ELECT/ EAMON E/ McDONOUGH/ COUNCILMAN.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.10
Gallery Label:
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1980
eMuseum Object ID:
68066
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back campaign button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1977-1985
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Description:
Black signature in script on white. Ed Koch.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.9
Gallery Label:
Ed Koch (b. 1924) was elected Mayor of New York City in 1977, 1981, and 1985.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1985
eMuseum Object ID:
68065
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back gay pride button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 2000
Medium:
Metal
Description:
Gay pride button; black text on yellow. BETTER/ GAY/ than Grumpy. On crimp: FERNE SALES AND MFG. CO. WEST ORANGE, N.J.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.8
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
2000
eMuseum Object ID:
68064
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1980
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
Description:
Black on white. Drawing of a cross with INTEGRITY written on each arm.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.7
Gallery Label:
Integrity is a nonprofit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender [LGBT] Episcopalians and their straight friends. Since its founding by Dr. Louie Crew in rural Georgia in 1974, Integrity has been a leading grassroots voice for the full inclusion of LGBT persons in the Episcopal Church and equal access to its rites.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1980
eMuseum Object ID:
68063
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1960-1980
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
Description:
White hand and black hand holding up dove, on teal blue.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.6
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1980
eMuseum Object ID:
68062
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 2004
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Description:
Red, white and blue. ReDEFEAT/ BUSH. RedefeatBush.com.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.5
Gallery Label:
ReDefeat Bush is a small, untraditional, left-wing group. After George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004, the group continued to campaign against others whom they claimed thought like Bush.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
2004
eMuseum Object ID:
68061
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
1979
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Description:
Black text on white. Around border: GAY PRIDE DAY East Side Sauna. In center: 10th Anniversary / June 24, '79.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.4
Gallery Label:
This button commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a series of grass-roots, often violent, demonstrations protesting the New York City Police Department's raid on the Stonewall Inn, an openly gay bar in Greenwich Village. Those events are seen as the catalyst for the activist LBGT movements which followed. The East Side Sauna, a bath house frequented by gay men, opened in 1975. It is also known as the East Side Club.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1979
eMuseum Object ID:
68060
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
1979
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Diameter: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Description:
Orange and black. NO NUKES/ September 23. Head of the Statue of Liberty in the background.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.3
Gallery Label:
Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, was an activist group founded in 1979 by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall. The group advocated against the use of nuclear energy, forming shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979. MUSE organized a series of five No Nukes concerts held at Madison Square Garden in New York in September 1979. On September 23, 1979, almost 200,000 people attended a large rally staged by MUSE on the then-empty north end of the Battery Park City landfill in New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1979
eMuseum Object ID:
68059
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
1993
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Diameter: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Description:
Black text on yellow. Around border: THE 1993 MARCH ON WASHINGTON for Lesbian, Gay & Bi Equal Rights & Liberation. In center: I WAS/ THERE/ APRIL 25th.
Credit Line:
Gift of Caroline R. Helmuth
Object Number:
2011.22.2
Gallery Label:
The spread of AIDS and the failure of the Reagan administration to recognize it as a crisis were among the factors which led leaders in the LGBT community to organize the Second National March on Washington (the first had been held on October 14th, 1979). The 1993 March, attended by more than 300,000 people, was led by Cesar Chavez and Eleanor Smeal.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1993
eMuseum Object ID:
68058
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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