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1933 - 1952
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPhiladelphia Stars button with metal pin back. The front of the button has three horizontal bands. The tope and bottom bands are red while the center band is white with red text that reads "PHILADELPHIA STARS."
1970-1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pinback button for the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement. The top have of the button has a black background and the bottom half of the button has a green background. Pink lettering throughout the button reads [No Bullshit / Boycott Polaroid]. The…
ca. 1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA round pinback button featuring a black and white portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the center. Printed above and around in white text on blue background is [POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN], directly below in blue text on white background is [FOR POOR…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis pinback button features a black and white outline drawing of a person cradling a baby. Text on the upper right quarter reads: [Poor/People's/ Campaign/ 1968]. Along the button rim is manufacturer information that reads: [OFFICIAL MFR'S © N.G. Slater…
April 30, 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pinback button for the Queens Walk For Development. The button has a white background with black text around the outer edge that reads [Queens Walk For Development / April 30, 1972]. At center there is a black circle with a white interior circle and…
ca. 1998
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA red, blue, and white pinback button for the re-election of Carl McCall as New York State Comptroller. The background of the button is red. At center, a blue box has white lettering that reads [McCall]. Above the [c] is a depiction of the state of New…
1960s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA round, yellow, pin back button with central black text over top of red text. The black text reads: [FREE ALL / POLITICAL / PRISONERS]. Red text in the background reads: [Ahmed Evans / Bobby Seale - Cleaver / Lee Otis Johnson / Erika Huggins - Catonsville…
2004
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pinback button from Rev. Al Sharpton's 2004 presidential campaign. The button is red, white, and blue with a color photograph of Sharpton at center. The image is bordered in red at top, blue at center and red at bottom. Written in white text at the top…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pinback button for Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. The button has a half black and half white background. Text throughout the center of the button reads [Kennedy For Equality]. The exterior edge of the button has the manufacturer's information…
1931-1932
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSmall circular pinback button with black text on an off-white background. At the center of the button is the message "I Gave to Save the Scottsboro Boys" with the union label of the Allied Printing Trades Council fo Baltimore. The folowing text surrounds…
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWhite button with red letters at the top reading "Catalyst for Change." In the center of the button is the phrase "Shirley Chisolm For President" written with blue letters. The button has an unlocking pin style back.
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWhite button with black and white image of Shirley Chisholm inside a red female symbol at center. Above the image, in red letters, is the phrase "Shirley Chisolm for President." Below the image is the quote "...To Represent All Americans." The button has…
ca. 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. The button has a yellow background with black type, aligned to the left, which reads: [Take / the / CHISHOLM / trail / to / 1600 / Pennsylvania Ave.] A depiction of the Capitol building, outlined in black, is aligned to…
ca. 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. The button has a white background with red type that reads: [SHIRLEY CHISHOLM for PRESIDENT] around the top and ["_to represent all Americans"] around the bottom. The center of the button has a black-and-white depiction of…
ca. 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. It has a yellow background with black type that reads: [UNBOSSED AND UNBOUGHT / SHIRLEY / CHISHOLM / FOR / PRESIDENT]. The fonts vary in size. Black type, around the edge of the pin reads: [LARRY FOX ASSOC. P.O. BOX 581…
ca. 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. The button has a white background with red type that reads: [SHIRLEY / CHISHOLM / FOR / PRESIDENT]. The text is in all capitalization and in different font sizes. The button has a logo on its edge. The logo text reads:…
ca. 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. The button has a white background with gold and blue type that reads: [LET'S GET / TO THE] in gold, around the top of a blue heart, [CHISHOLM] through a blue tinted depiction of Shirley Chisholm’s face inside of the blue…
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. The button has a white background with red type that reads: [Liberty & Equality] around the top edge of the button, and [Chisholm / 72] in the center. The bottom of the button has a depiction of the bust of the Statue of…
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. The button has a red background with white type that reads: [Catalyst / for Change / CHISHOLM / for PRESIDENT / '72] in different fonts. Outlined and filled-in stars surround the text. The edge of the button has two logo…
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. The button has a white and blue background that is sectioned off into quarters through crisscross lines. A blue depiction of Shirley Chisholm is in the center of the button. Blue text surrounds the depiction of Chisholm…
ca. 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA circular metal pin-back button. The button has a white background with blue and red type that reads: [CATALYST FOR CHANGE] around the top in red, and [SHIRLEY / CHISHOLM / FOR / PRESIDENT] in blue, centered below. The edge of the pin reads in blue text:…
1964-1969
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pinback button for the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC). The button has a white background. At center is a confederate flag with two hands shaking over it. The exterior edge has the manufacturer's information printed in black ink. The back of…
April 26, 1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pinback button for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The background of the button is red. At center, a white geometric shape highlights the black text that reads [Strike! / April 26]. At bottom center, additional black text…
1960-1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black pinback button with a white center. The white center is round with two small horizontal white bars extending out to the edges. The center has three lines of black text [WE / SHALL / OVERCOME]. At the top, curving around the edge of the button, is…
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