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Title: Speed Recovery, Re-Elect Hoover Button
Description: 7/8-inch, pin back button with white text reading, "Speed Recovery, Re-Elect Hoover" with a red and blue background. Reverse has label for Greenduck Company (Chicago, Il.)

Title: FDR Look 'n See Card
Description: 3 inch by 2 inch trading card portraying a cartoon image of President Franklin D. Rosevelt with a cigarette holder in his mouth in front of an American flag. A box at the bottom contains text reading "Franklin D. roosevelt Pres. U.S. 1933-1945". The reverse is red-orange with white text headlined "Franklin D Roosevelt No. 2 of 9 Presidents" above a brief biography of Roosevelt. Below is text

Title: Hoover, Red, White, and Blue Button
Description: 7/8-inch, white, pin back button in red, white and blue with the word, "HOOVER" in blue across the white stripe. Reverse has label for Green Duck Company (Chicago, Il.)

Title: Amish Girl in Bern, Indiana
Date: 1948-03-14
Description: A young Amish girl walks through the streets of Bern Indiana on her way to board a bus to Missouri.

Title: Teddy Roosevelt on Black Button
Date: 1904
Description: 3/4-inch round, clothing button with gold toned teddy bear on black background.

Title: Teddy Roosevelt Gold Button
Description: 7/8-inch round, clothing button with gold-tone teddy bear in the center and ornate trim framing the edges of the button.

Title: Hoover Castle Button
Description: 7/8-inch, pin back button featuring a gold castle with "Hoover" written across it in blue. Reverse has paper label for St. Louis Button Company (St. Louis, Mo.)

Title: Champ Clark for President Button
Date: 1912
Description: 7/8-inch, white, pin back button which reads "Clark For President" in blue lettering for Champ Clark's 1912 presidential campaign. Reverse has label for St. Louis Button Company (St. Louis, Mo.)

Title: Cape Girardeau, MO Floodwall
Date: 1958-10-12
Description: View north from the highway ridge at Cape Girardeau, Mo. showing a complete section of the flood wall. The floodwall will save the city from its almost annual flood battering. The city on the average will have a flood in the future only every 100 years. a $131,000,000 floodwall protection project is in the works for St. Louis and will start this year. St. Louis is the last major river city

Title: Reagan Mask Postcard
Date: 1984
Description: 93121". Below the writing at the top are arrows pointing to the opening for the nose. 4 /14 inches by 6 1/2 inches.

Title: William J. Bryan medal
Description: 1 2/8-inch gold-tone medal with relief portrait of William J. Bryan. Reverse of medal has a laurel wreath in low relief.

Title: Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt with Eagle on Gold button
Date: 1901
Description: 1 1/8-inch round, pin back button with black and white portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in a white circle on gold with an eagle overhead and two American flags below. Button has paper back label with St. Louis Button Co., St. Louis and Allied Printing Trades Council 3, Newark (N.J.).

Title: "A Full Dinner Bucket" Button
Date: 1900
Description: 1 and 1/4-inch round pin back button with image of a white metal dinner bucket over a blue background. Text on a cup on the top of the bucket reads "EMPLOYMENT FOR LABOR". Text on the lid of the bucket reads "A FULL DINNER BUCKET". Across the front of the bucket is a gold oval containing black and white portraits of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Text on the handle reads "PROSPERITY

Title: "Ford or Carter" Brochure
Date: 1976
Description: White paper brochure. The front is red with white text reading "Ford or Carter". Inside is a black and white picture of Ford. The next two pages contain red text with black headlines praising Ford and providing negative statements about Carter. The back reads "How do you choose?" and "Ford, He's making us proud again." This brochure was produced by "The President Ford Committee".

Title: "Bet on Bush" Bubble Gum Cigar Set
Description: Set of bubble gum cigars in red, white, and blue designed box (6.25" x 5.25" x 1.5") that features a black and white portrait of George H. W. Bush to promote Bush's 1988 presidential campaign. Produced by Swell Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corporation.

Title: "Campaign '88, Dukakis For President" Cigarette Pack
Date: 1988
Description: Pack of cigarettes (3.5"x2.25"x.75") featuring a blue profile portrait of Michael Dukakis to promote his 1988 presidential candidacy. A red, white and blue stripe flows behind Dukakis’s head.

Title: "A Clean Sweep" Button
Description: Button with an image of a rooster with a broom. Surrounding the rooster, text reads "A CLEAN SWEEP". The rooster references the former symbol of the Democratic Party.

Title: "Carpenters and Hillary" T-shirt
Date: 2016
Description: Blue cotton t-shirt with "Carpenters & Hilary 2016" in red, white, and blue using Clinton's signature arrow design on the chest. The back of the t-shirt has the same symbol with the words "Building a Strong America" in white. Produced and distributed by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

Title: "Clinton for President" Bubble Gum Cigar
Description: Bubble gum cigar with the words "Clinton For President" written on the wrapper in white. Produced by Swell Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corporation.

Title: Insurance Name Change
Date: 1968-01-23
Description: This building at 4144 Lindell Blvd. is now known as The Insurance Exchange Building to make the name more representative of the various insurance operations housed there. It formerly was known as The General Insurors Building.

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