Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Pinback button
Object Number:
2002.1.3918
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 3/8 in. diameter
Description:
A beige pinback button with a diagram of a machine with an upper hopper, a feed chute and a receptacle basket beneath marked "Janney Common Sense Mill/ Gearing Runs in Oil/ Has Great Capacity/ Grinds Chop Corn and Table Meal/ Write For Catalogue And Prices".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
