Collection Highlights
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
Date:
1932
Object Number:
LIB.NS11.M14.1.20
Medium:
black and color ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Luce Center
Campaign sign
Object Number:
INV.7389
Date:
1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 11 in. ( 16.5 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
printed: across top: "* * THE HOPE OF OUR COUNTRY * *"
printed: center: "WILLKIE"
printed: at right base: "PAT. APPL. FOR"
printed: on reverse: "MANUFACTURED BY/ Monticello Mfg. Corp./ ELWOOD, INDIANA"
Description:
Metal sign from Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign; white semi-circular sign with a blue semi-circle in the center inscribed, "WILLKIE" with a star above; "* * THE HOPE OF OUR COUNTRY * *" printed in red above; four oval holes stamped out accross the base for attaching the sign.
Gallery Label:
Wendell Willkie ran against FDR in the 1940 presidential campaign on the Republican ticket.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
