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From the rarest of the rare to everybody's favorite cartoon beagle, pin-back button experts and authors Ted Hake and Christen Carter share some of their favorite buttons.
Long before social media became the most popular platform for self-expression, there was the humble pin-back button. After 125 years the button – as political statement, punch line, conversation piece and souvenir – remains a pint-sized dynamo.
A bright and visually captivating new book, with the help of more than 1,500 images of pin-back buttons, captures the big and small moments that define us as a country.
Election posters have evolved into slick marketing tools. But if you look at the evolution of campaign posters you'll see early efforts were far more clunky than clever.
Ernest Warther’s hand carvings of steam locomotives a legacy of hobby.
David Pilgrim and the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia use objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as homes spread outward from the inner city, lawns came into vogue. To keep those green spaces green, all sorts of different lawn sprinklers were developed.
Legendary collection of vintage shooting gallery targets takes center stage at Soulis Auctions in September. Early collectors Richard and Valerie Tucker embraced the targets, calling them 'iron as art.'
Innovation takes flight at The Henry Ford Museum, the brainchild of American industrialist and Michigan native Henry Ford, who founded Ford Motor Company in 1901. Ford started his museum largely based on the idea of learning by doing.
Ferris State University's museum shines light on the darkness that surrounds race relations in America, using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice.
Sale of acclaimed illustrator Joseph Christian Leyendecker's 1943 war-time classic gives birth to a heartwarming story at Heritage Auctions event.
Architecture and design critic John Margolies spent nearly 40 years driving across the US, photographing the changing landscape of roadside attractions.
From Fourth of July postcards to Uncle Sam dolls, Ruby Lane has hundreds of patriotic antiques and collectibles.
The original dairy queen, Caroline Shawk Brooks, became the nation's first butter-sculpting sensation in the late 1800s.
Rare 'Widow Maker' diving helmet that helped daring divers survive rescue missions in incredible ocean depths comes to auction at Nation's Attic.