Digital Collections
Button
Object/Artifact
Cardboard box of vegetable ivory button samples showing product and manufacturing process; top card has 8 different buttons showing coloring, finish methods. Underneath are compartments with marked examples of whole nut, various stages,even scraps and sawdust! Box top reads “Compliments of German-American Button Co. Rochester NY Sat.” Penciled underneath top board: “Saturday Mar.12 1910.”
G91.140
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Notion
1910
Buttons
Sampler
Rochester, NY
Vegetable
Ivory
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