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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Roosevelt Campaign Pin, ca. 1944
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Roosevelt Campaign Pin, ca. 1944

Object numberMO 1975.140
Name Pin, Campaign
Maker
Dateca. 1944
Mediumcardstock, paper, metal, fabric
Dimensionsoverall H 1 7/8 in x W 1 1/8 in (4.8 cm x 2.9 cm )
DescriptionA Franklin Roosevelt campaign pin, possibly from the 1944 campaign. Suspended from a gold-colored safety pin is a cardstock cutout of a folded brown shirt. A strip of off-white paper is wrapped around the shirt, and a message printed in black text on the front reads: Our Shirt for / Roosevelt. Printed on the back of the strip, along with a New York union bug, is the text: Joint Board Shirt / Workers Union / A.C.W. of A. A short length of red, white, and blue woven ribbon is looped through the safety pin and stapled on the back of the shirt.
Label TextThis pin may be the one sent to President Franklin Roosevelt by Mrs. Harry G. Meyers, of New York, NY, after the 1944 campaign.
Additional Details
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesCampaign Memorabilia (National Archives Identifier 778819)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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