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Politics
6:27 am
Fri September 28, 2012

Political Collection At Mercantile Library 'Makes History Real'

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This gold bug pin comes from the 1896 presidential campaign by Republican presidential candidate William McKinley, who supported the gold standard. At one time the wings would actually flap.
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A campaign button for Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, who ran against Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. Dunn-Morton says Willkie’s strategy was to flood the country with his campaign buttons in an effort to gain name recognition.
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The peanut was an instantly recognizable representation of Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, a former peanut farmer from Georgia.
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The Dr. Allen B. & Helen S. Shopmaker Political Collection includes more than 4,000 items and is now held by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
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This Sunday an exhibition called “Presidents and Politics” opens at the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis.

The campaign buttons, posters and cartoons on display seem quaint compared to this year’s high-tech presidential race, but they also show American politics has always been spirited.

The memorabilia is part of the Dr. Allen B. and Helen S. Shopmaker Political Collection, a gift to the Mercantile Library.

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