BUTTON, POLITICAL

Description: ROUND BUTTON. WHITE BACKGROUND WITH BLUE AND RED PRINT. READS "RE-ELECT PC VOTE HURLBURT". NEAR BOTTOM ARE 2 CHECKMARKS, ONE RED, ONE BLUE. ALSO READS, IN SMALL RED PRINT, "AUTHORIZED BY THE HURLBURT CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, PRINTED IN CANADA BY THE HERALD PRINTERS.". FRONT OF BUTTON HAS A NUMBER OF DENTS IN IT. BACK OF BUTTON IS TARNISHED; HAS A BRASS SAFETY PIN ON BACK.

History: DONOR BELIEVES BUTTON WAS PROBABLY GIVEN TO HIM BY PARENTS, KNOWING THAT HE COLLECTED THEM. BUTTONS WERE COLLECTED BY DONOR THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD IN PICTURE BUTTE, MOST LIKELY BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 1976 AND 1983. DONOR COLLECTED APPROXIMATELY 100 BUTTONS. **UPDATE: COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK INTERVIEWED OBJECT DONOR KEVIN MACLEAN ON SEPT 13, 2018 AS PART OF HER 2017-2019 RELEVANCY AUDIT ASSIGNMENT. MACLEAN MADE NEW COMMENTS ON PERSONAL DONATIONS MADE BETWEEN 1995 AND 2002, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, HIS MEMORIES OF HIS DONATED BUTTONS, LEGION SERVICE MATERIAL, AND MILLENNIUM (YEAR 2000) NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION OBJECTS. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE ITEMS AND OTHERS, INCLUDING A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW, SEE THIS RECORD'S PERMANENT FILE.