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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