under construction (6/6/09)

 The Joys of Collecting

a virtual museum

pinback buttons

by Gina Giuliano

Many members of my family like to buy, and/or sell things on ebay

Among other things, I collect pinback buttons; I have had some of them since I was a kid. They contain a wide range of messages; some political; some patriotic; some product campaigns of one sort or another; some activism; some funny sayings. Although I have bought a few on ebay, most of them have been gathered in various places: at an occasional flea market, received as a gift from a friend or a relative, collected from a political campaign or other popular event.

Here is just a fraction of my collection, starting with a few themes.

^Flag themes and other patriotic messages

^Peanuts images, older and newer

<The full display, when my collection was a lot smaller

>Presidentially speaking...

New York State of mind (below)

If you want to buy politically-themed buttons, or just learn more about pinbacks, click here to view an interesting site.

Anyone have any ideas about what this pin might be? If so, send an email to me. My brother found it in a house in Olivebridge, NY about 30 years ago.

 

< health

school>

organizations>

<slogans

businesses & products (left and below)

^booze    

activism>

 

<patriotic (some repeated)

local elections (left and below)

<environment et al.

NYS themes (some repeated)>

presidential elections (below, some repeated)

 

 

cute, pretty and/or silly buttons (left and below)

events (above and below)

peanuts (below, repeated)

?fun>

<arts

celebrating regions (below)