Sacramento environmentalist’s collection of slogans goes to Smithsonian

Bob Cox notes The Sacramento Bee Reports the Smithsonian owns tens of thousands of buttons, mainly from electoral campaigns, but has recently been working to broaden its collection of late-20th century memorabilia.

They just scored the nation’s largest known collection of environmental political buttons — 1,600 round metal disks that had been steadily collected over three decades by a Sacramento activist, Jerry Meral, who agreed to donate them to the museum last year.

July 15, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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