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1. A Trove of Lincoln Treasures Lands at the New York Library

Author

Schuessler, Jennifer

Subjects
New York, New York. Public Library -- Powers and duties, Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

The New York Public Library's grand research library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is home to Virginia Woolf's walking stick, Charles Dickens's desk chair and the original Winnie-the-Pooh. But [...]

Published
2024

2. Spitting Image

Author

Bethea, Charles

Subjects
Political history -- Appreciation, Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, Curators -- Interviews, General interest, Literature/writing, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Charles Bethea Spitting Image Jim Warlick was peering into a dark tractor-trailer parked in an airplane hangar in northeast Georgia. Inside was a four-thousand-pound Oval Office, broken down into [...]

Published
2017

3. What say you, Mr. President?

Subjects
Executive power -- Laws, regulations and rules, Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

'POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT' is designed to explore the nature of Executive Branch power under the Constitution, and how various presidents have exercised it. The exhibit uses historic documents from [...]

Published
2016

4. Ghosts of Elections Past

Author

Barron, James

Subjects
Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, New York Historical Society
Abstract

IN an age of social media, it is easy to forget about old-fashioned presidential campaign memorabilia: posters, fliers, advertisements. The New-York Historical Society has not forgotten. Its exhibition of memorabilia [...]

Published
2016

5. In 1968, social scientists tried to help D.C.'s cops and inner city residents get along

Author

Kelly, John F.

Subjects
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 -- Influence, Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

The first thing Robert Shellow said when I rang him up at his Bethesda home this week was, 'As you know, it was a very controversial project.' No kidding. How [...]

Published
2018

6. Museum Exhibit Explores Fashion And Politics

Author

Feitelberg, Rosemary

Subjects
Fashion design -- Exhibitions, Fashion design -- Political aspects, Politics in art -- Exhibitions, Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, Business, Fashion, accessories and textiles industries, Retail industry
Abstract

Museum Exhibit Explores Fashion and Politics Fashion and politics come in many different forms. Consider the star-studded dress imprinted with an image of Hubert Humphrey's face, an 1889 American flag-covered [...]

Published
2009

7. Kitsch in Cabinets; Behind every successful politician stands a collector

Author

Stuttaford, Andrew

Subjects
Campaigning for President: Memorabilia from the Nation's Finest Private Collection (Nonfiction work), Archivists -- Works, Archivists -- Collections and collecting, Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, Attorneys -- Marketing, Company marketing practices, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Campaigning for President New York and the American Election Museum of the City of New York An opportunity to listen to Robert Kennedy Jr. promoting his new book blaming Republicans [...]

Published
2008

8. All the Presidents' Memorabilia

Author

Kovaleski, Serge F.

Subjects
Activists -- Collections and collecting, Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Jordan M. Wright's collection of political memorabilia is unquestionably prodigious. Consisting of perhaps a million-plus items, amassed over four decades, it includes an assortment of ephemera like a George W. [...]

Published
2015

9. EXHIBIT SHOWCASES EVOLUTION OF CAMPAIGNS

Subjects
Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the George Washington University: By Menachem Wecker The dozens of objects in the exhibit 'Your Next President...! The Campaign Art of [...]

Published
2016

11. In a Collection of Memorabilia, Politics at Its Most Boisterous

Author

Rothstein, Edward

Subjects
Museum of the City of New York -- Services, Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, Campaign paraphernalia -- Exhibitions
Abstract

One of the great unanswerable questions of the exuberant exhibition 'Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election,' which opened this week at the Museum of the City of […]

Published
2008

12. California presidential

Subjects
Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, History, Regional focus/area studies, Exhibitions
Abstract

Paradoxes and possibilities are exposed in the collecting of political memorabilia. Embroidered or stamped ribbons, pins and badges, banners and bumper stickers can seem small and insignificant in their physical [...]

Published
2008

13. The world's largest private collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia--including signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment--will be housed at the Indiana State Museum, officials announced Dec. 12

Subjects
Political collectibles -- Exhibitions, Business, Business, regional, Indiana State Museum -- Exhibitions
Abstract

The world's largest private collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia--including signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment--will be housed at the Indiana State Museum, officials announced Dec. 12. Valued [...]

Published
2008

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