Browse Items (63 total)

  • Collection: Buttons and Ribbons

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Metal token featuring an image of William Howard Taft, and the slogan "Equal Rights for All." This coin may have been distributed during either the 1908 or the 1912 presidential campaigns.

No manufacturer markings on the coin.

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Black on gold pinback button. White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Chicago union bug.

This button may have been used in Iowa during the 1916 suffrage referendum. The referendum failed to pass at that time, but Iowa became…

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Overall size, 10 cm.

1.25" brass rim holding celluloid with reverse metal back. Metal back also has soldered stickpin.
Background of pin is faded yellow, with black lettering circling around outer edges reading “Equal Rights and Personal…

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Purple, green, and white pinback button with the logo for the Women's Political Union of New York. Founded by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the WPU adopted the same colors as the British Women's Social and Political Union.

White backpaper contains the…

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Pinback with illustration of two women showing off their legs, with the words "Women's Rights." White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer and distributor.

These satirical buttons were issued by the American Tobacco Company and placed…

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Red, white and blue pinback button. The name "Women's Apparel Union" and "Women's Oversea Hospitals, U.S.A." surround center image of a nurse standing in front of the flags for Great Britain, the United States, and France.

The National American…

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Black on yellow pinback button. This button was created to lobby New Jersey voters for the suffrage referendum on October 19, 1915. The referendum failed to pass at that time.

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Milford,…

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Black on yellow pinback button. This button was created to lobby New Jersey voters for the suffrage referendum on October 19, 1915. The referendum failed to pass at that time.

White back paper contains the name of the manufacturer and the Milford,…

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Blue on gold pinback button with the slogan "Votes for Women."

White backpaper contains the name of the manufacturer and distributor.

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Blue and yellow pinback button with 12 white stars around the border and the slogan "Votes for Women." The twelve stars represent the number of states in which women had full suffrage at the time it was made.

Printed on the back are the name of…
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