Button
Classification:
Description:
1 of a group of 10 buttons and one document that refers to Wilkie.
Object Number:
INV.2201.7
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
58428
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Button
Classification:
Description:
1 of a group of 10 buttons and one document that refers to Wilkie.
Object Number:
INV.2201.6
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
58427
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Button
Classification:
Description:
1 of a group of 10 buttons and one document that refers to Wilkie.
Object Number:
INV.2201.5
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
58426
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Button
Classification:
Description:
1 of a group of 10 buttons and one document that refers to Wilkie.
Object Number:
INV.2201.4
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
58425
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bookmark
Classification:
Date:
1933-1945
Medium:
Metal
Description:
Metal bookmark with ribbon ends, supporting Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidential candidacy.
Object Number:
INV.14753b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
58424
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
McKinley Tariff Object Lesson No. 2
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1893
Medium:
Tin, printed
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 11/16 × 3 3/4 in. (6.8 × 9.5 cm)
Description:
Rectangular tin plaque campaign hand out; recto: portraits of Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson in circular medals suspended from double pointed spear with bald eagle wings extended, inscribed: "FOR PRESIDENT/GROVER CLEVELAND/FOR VICE PRESDIENT/ADLAI E. STEVENSON" withing oak leaf and acorn and laurel leaf border; on verso: extensively printed with text describing the tax on imported tin. "McKINLEY TARIFF OBJECT LESSON No. 2/ Not a sheet of "American" tin plate used for canning the Farmer's Products./ The interest of 200, 000 American workers injured by Tin Plate Legislation./ Vote the Democratic Ticket and reduce the Taxes./ THIS CARD IS MADE OF, SO CALLED, "AMERICAN" TIN PLATE./ Tin plate is sheet steel thinly coated with metallic. Tin This "Americaan" tin plate was made in this way: 1st, The finished black steel sheet, ready for the process of tinning (forming three-fourths of the entire value of teh sheet of tin plate when finished) was made by British labor, out of British materials, in Great Britain, and imported into the United States. 2d. The metallic tin with which it is coated was produced in Australia and imported into the United States. 3d. The tinning-pot, or machine in which the black sheet was coated with metallic tin, was made in Great Britain and imported into the United States. 4th. The oil used in the process of tinning was produced in Africa and imported into the United States. 5th. The men who work the tinning-pot, that is, coat the black plates with tin, were imported into the United States from Great Britain, in violation or evasion of the Contract Labor Law since the passage of the McKinley bill. 6th. The boys and girls who wait on these men are the only representatives of American labor employed in the making (?) of this "American" tin plate. It is to support this tinning-pot industry that the American people pay an annual tax of $15,000,000 and the Republican Secretary of the Treasury of the United States rules that tin plates so...
Object Number:
Z.3406
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1893
eMuseum Object ID:
58378
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Political ribbon
Classification:
Date:
1892-1893
Medium:
Silk, cellulosic plastic, silk tape
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. ( 8.3 x 5.4 cm )
Description:
Portraits of Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman printed on rectangular pieces of plastic attached to both sides of folded red silk ribbon by red silk tape.
Object Number:
INV.6698b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1893
eMuseum Object ID:
58374
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Willkie
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. ( 12.1 x 34.3 cm )
Description:
Metal sheet car plate printed in blue and red; inscription "WILLKIE" highlighted with rows of raised bumps for better light refraction.
Object Number:
Z.3403
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
58373
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Elect Perot President
Classification:
Date:
c. 1992
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 11 1/2 in. ( 7.6 x 29.2 cm )
Description:
Paper bumper sticker printed in blue, white and red, inscribed: "Elect/Perot/President".
Object Number:
Z.3404
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1992
eMuseum Object ID:
58372
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
McKinley Tariff Object Lesson
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1893
Medium:
Tin, printed
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. ( 7 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Rectangular tin plaque campaign hand out; recto: portraits of Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevsonin circular medals suspended from double pointed spear with bald eagle wings extended, inscribed: "FOR PRESIDENT/GROVER CLEVELAND/FOR VICE PRESDIENT/ADLAI E. STEVENSON" withing oak leaf and acorn and lauren leaf border; on verso: extensively printed with text describing the tax on imported tin in a quartered field. "A McKINLEY TARIFF OBJECT LESSON/ Tax on Tin-Plate nearly 3/4 of actural value/ THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SAYS THE CONSUMER PAYS THIS TAX/ Vote the Democratic Ticket for Tariff Reform./ THIS CARD IS MADE OF IMPORTED TIN PLATE. It wsighs 100 lbx. per box and sells in New York City for $5.20. Out of this abmount the U.S. Govt's receives $2.20 by/virtue of the McKinley Tariff. Therefore, without duty it is sold for #3.00 per box. The consumer pays $5.20 per box. Who does the Republican Party say pays this Tax of 73 1/3% of landed value?/ This is the kind of tin plate in which the Farmer's Tomatoes, Peaches, Peas, etc., etc., and the Fisherman's Lobsters, Oysters, Salmon, etc. are packed and preserved for sale. Cost increased by tax./ The workingman's dinner-pail and part of his dinner, his cups, plates, dishes, washbowls, saucepans and other household utensils are increased in cost by the McKinly Tariff as this sheet of Tin Plate is."
Object Number:
Z.3405
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1893
eMuseum Object ID:
58371
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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