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Title: Back Up; You've Batted Twice Card
Date: 1916
Description: A cartoon portrays Uncle Sam serving as referee and instructing a stylized Theodore Roosevelt to step away and allow a stylized Taft to take bat in a baseball game. Text beside Uncle Sam reads "Back up; you've batted twice".

Title: Grand National Democratic Banner
Date: 1844
Description: Hand colored lithographic print with oval portraits of Presidential candidate James K. Polk and Vice-Presidential candidate George M. Dallas. A depiction of red swagged drapery edged in gold fringe frames the upper half of the print and surrounds the words "Polk the Young Hickory. Dallas and Victory". During his presidency James K. Polk was known as "Young Hickory", an allusion to his mentor Andrew Jackson. A row of stars is above the text. The American eagle holds the edges of two crossed and draped flags in its beak above and between the two oval portraits, while winding ribbon banners beneath the portraits identify the sitters as President and Vice-President. Across the bottom of the print are the words "Grand, National, Democratic Banner. Press Onward."

Title: Goldwater Glasses Order Card
Description: Printed order form from HRB Suppliers for "Goldwater Glasses."

Title: For President Alfred E. Smith Button
Date: 1928
Description: White button with black text read "For President Alfred E. Smith" surrounding a black and white, photographic portrait of presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith.

Title: Grover Cleveland Watch Fob
Date: 1884
Description: Metal watch fob with clasp and chain showing a depiction of an American eagle with wings spread atop a circular photographic portrait of presidential candidate Grover Cleveland.

Title: Democratic National Convention 1964 - Delegate Ribbon
Date: 1964
Description: Red, white, and blue striped ribbon with ribbon badge depicting an American eagle sitting atop a banner flanked by two American flags. The banner reads "Delegate Democratic National Convention 1964." A medal hanging from the ribbon reads "Atlantic City" and depicts the facade of Boardwalk Hall. Beneath the image is a large star surrounded by an airplane in flight and a cart from the Atlantic City

Title: Coolidge-Dawes, Full Dinner Pail Button
Date: 1924
Description: White button with red top and blue bottom border, each with white lettering and a sketch of a dinner pail surrounded by the words "Coolidge-Dawes" and "Full Dinner Pail".

Title: Fair Play and A Square Deal Ribbon
Date: 1906
Description: White ribbon with blue text reading "Fair Play and A Square Deal." Beneath the text is a depiction of a button with an image of presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt and blue ribbons hanging down. The white text on the ribbons reads "Republican Ticket 1906." Below the button is blue text reading "Vote For Magistrate Charles P. Rooney and The Whole Republican Ticket" inside an ornate frame.

Title: I Voted; NYC Votes Sticker
Date: 2016
Description: Printed circular pale blue sticker displaying the Statue of Liberty with the words "I Voted" in red, white, and blue, and with the words "NYC Votes", issued in Brooklyn, New York

Title: Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis Button
Date: 1928
Description: Button with oval portraits of Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis. Hoover's portrait has the words "For President Herbert Hoover" while Charles' portrait has "For Vice President Charles Curtis." An American flag hangs behind each portrait.

Title: I Voted Sticker
Date: 2016
Description: Large white oval sticker with the words "I Voted" in blue lettering along with a waving American flag, issued in Avondale, Pennsylvania

Title: Harding and Coolidge Button
Date: 1920
Description: Blue button with white text reading "Harding and Coolidge." Bordering the text are both a thin white stripe and a thicker red stripe on the top and bottom.

Title: Harding/Coolidge Watch Fob
Date: 1920
Description: Watch fob with black leather strap and golden fob. The fob depicts an American eagle sitting atop a dome, flanked by arrows and an olive branch. Below the eagle are the oval portraits of presidential candidate Warren G. Harding and vice presidential candidate Calvin Coolidge. Above these portraits are the words "E Pluribus Unum" and below the portraits are their names, "Harding" and "Coolidge." At the bottom of the fob it reads "Our Choice."

Title: Hoover/Curtis Button
Date: 1928
Description: Rectangular button reading "Hoover Curtis," framed by black and white images of both presidential candidate Herbert Hoover and vice presidential candidate Charles Curtis.

Title: Hard Times Medal
Date: 1824
Description: Medal with a bust-length relief portrait of Andrew Jackson, surrounded by the words "My substitute for the U.S. Bank." Underneath his image are the words "MY Experiment MY currency MY glory." These words are continued on the back side of the medal with "MY victory, Down with the bank." On this side of the medal there is also an image of a running pig surrounded by the words "Perish commerce. Perish credit."

Title: The Artist
Description: A depiction of Hazel Weedel Goetsch, the artist's wife, seated and drawing near the shore of a small harbor.

Title: Charles Deas, Winnebago with Bear-Claw Necklace and Spiked Club
Date: 1842
Description: Winnebago (now Ho-Chunk) chieftain painted by Charles Deas by 1842, oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 36 inches high by 30 inches wide.

Title: Charles Deas, Winnebago with Bear-Claw Necklace and Spear
Date: 1842
Description: Winnebago (now Ho-Chunk) chieftain painted by Charles Deas by 1842, oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 36 inches high by 30 inches wide.

Title: Charles Deas, Winnebago with Peace Medal and Pipe
Date: 1842
Description: Winnebago (now Ho-Chunk) chieftain painted by Charles Deas by 1842, oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 36 inches high by 30 inches wide.

Title: Lemasson or Henry Lewis, St. Louis Riverfront after the Great Fire, 1849
Date: 1849
Description: Panoramic watercolor painting depicts the aftermath of a fire that destroyed much of the St. Louis riverfront in 1849, showing burned out buildings, the wreckage of steamboats and damaged docks. Signed lower right "Lemasson" and inscribed lower margin "Locust St."

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