Button
Classification:
Date:
1963-1980
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 2 in. ( 7.6 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Oval metal pin-back button "KENNEDY/ THE MAN/ THE MYTH/ THE AIRPORT"; button is black and red with white lettering and has a picture of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in black/white.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
2001.201
Gallery Label:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) was the 35th President of the United States. In 1963, the year of his election and assasination, the International Airport was rededicated in his memory.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1980
eMuseum Object ID:
45524
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1974
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 in. ( 3.8 cm )
Description:
Circular metal pin-back button "NIXON.../ Does he love/ us enough/ to leave us?"; black and white background.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
2001.200
Gallery Label:
Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) became the 37th President of the United States in 1969 and was relected in 1972. Richard Nixon resigned his Presidency due to the Watergate scandal, in which he allowed the break-in and electronic bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment and office building complex.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1974
eMuseum Object ID:
45523
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
1986
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 in. ( 3.8 cm )
Description:
Circular metal pin-back button "NEED A/ PARKING/ SPACE?/ CALL/ DONALD/ MANES"; white lettering on red background.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
2001.188
Gallery Label:
Donald Manes (b. 1934) was elected borough president of Queens and worked to encourage many economic developments in Queens. Two days after being sworn in for his fourth term as borough president in 1986, his career collapsed when he attempted suicide. He stood to be indicted by federal and city prosecutors for having accepted bribes since 1979 from vendors seeking contracts with the Parking Violations Bureau. Manes resigned from office and took his own life a few weeks later.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1986
eMuseum Object ID:
45522
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Button
Classification:
Date:
1992
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 3 in. ( 5.1 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Rectangular metal pin-back campaign button "CLINTON/GORE/It's time for a change!" with logo of Int. Ladies Garment Workers Union; blue and red lettering on white background; logo resembles falling piece of paper with needle and thread.
Credit Line:
Gift of Kitty Krupat
Object Number:
2001.242
Gallery Label:
William Jefferson Clinton and Albert Gore were elected President and Vice-President in 1992.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1992
eMuseum Object ID:
45517
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Campaign button
Classification:
Date:
2000
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 in. ( 6.4 cm )
Description:
Circular pin-back photo button from the 2000 Presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
Credit Line:
Gift of Jonathan H. Mann
Object Number:
2001.19
Marks:
printed: on obverse: "BUSH FOR PRESIDENT/IN 2000"
printed: on rim of button: "BOLD CONCEPTS NYC 212-764-6630"
Gallery Label:
Republican George W. Bush defeated his Democratic opponent Al Gore in the Presidential campaign of 2000.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
2000
eMuseum Object ID:
45515
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back campaign button
Classification:
Date:
1993
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/4 in. ( 4.4 cm )
Description:
Circular metal pin-back campaign button inscribed "RUDY/ GIULIANI/ for/ MAYOR" in red and white stripes.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
2001.206
Marks:
printed: on side of button: "Paid for by Giuliani for New York" and "N. G. Slater Corp. NYC"
Gallery Label:
Rudolph W. Giuliani (b. 1944), popularly known as Rudy, served as Mayor of New York City from 1993 to 2001. In 1993, he waged a vigorous campaign in which he criticized Mayor David Dinkins for an indifferent approach to managing the city and pledged to reduce business taxes, assume a tougher stance on crime, and privatize some city services. He defeated Dinkins to become the city's first Republican mayor in twenty-eight years.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1993
eMuseum Object ID:
45516
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 5/8 in. ( 4.2 cm )
Description:
Circular metal pin-back button "BATES/MUST/PLAY!/N.Y.U. MO. GAME"; white and purple; button is burned.
Object Number:
Z.2762
Gallery Label:
The protests increased when other black basketball and track stars were forced out of athletic events. N.Y.U. resisted. Not only did Leonard Bates not play, but the student leaders - known on campus as the ¿Bates Seven¿ - were suspended for ¿circulating a petition without permission.¿ One of the seven, Evelyn Maisel, a senior, was not able to graduate.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
45509
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Medal
Classification:
Date:
1898
Medium:
Brass, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/16 x 1 3/16 in. ( 5.6 x 3 cm )
Description:
Brass medal suspended from bar with pin back; circular inscription "WAR WITH SPAIN/1898" with depiction of a fort in center; reverse inscription "UNITED STATES ARMY/FOR/SERVICE" with depiction of eagle and stars; blue and yellow silk ribbon connects medal and bar.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. George Wettlaufer
Object Number:
1945.51
Gallery Label:
This medal was awarded to George Wettlaufer.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1898
eMuseum Object ID:
45505
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1990
Medium:
Metal, enamel
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/4 in. ( 0.6 cm )
Description:
Lapel pin in the shape of an apple; Y in the center; red enamel.
Credit Line:
Gift of Henry Luce III
Object Number:
2002.20.34
Gallery Label:
Since 1851, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) has become the nation's largest not-for-profit community service organization in America.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1990
eMuseum Object ID:
45503
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back campaign button
Classification:
Date:
2001
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 in. ( 5.1 cm )
Description:
Circular metal pin-back campaign button "BETSY GOTBAUM/PUBLIC ADVOCATE"; green and white.
Credit Line:
Gift of Henry Luce III
Object Number:
2002.20.16
Gallery Label:
Betsy Gotbaum, President of the New-York Historical Society from 1995 to 2001, was elected for Public Advocate in 2001.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
2001
eMuseum Object ID:
45502
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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