Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1785-1789
Object Number:
1916.7
Medium:
Mahogany; pine, poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Pinback button
Object Number:
Z.2639
Date:
1940
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A pinback campaign button divided horizontally into red, white and blue sections that reads "Caution/ We Need Willkie/ Not/ Dictatorship". Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892-1944) was a Republican candidate for president of the United States, 1940, in an unsuccessful run against FDR.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
