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Several buttons relating to local campaigns, including:
"I am a Sangamon County Republican"
"McDonough County Republican"

The collection includes some humorous items, including one button reading "Politically incorrect and proud of it"

Several more government and campaign buttons, including buttons on single issue campaigns. Examples include buttons supporting the Equal Rights Amendment, and reading 'No New Liquor Tax'. The collection also includes census buttons from 1990 and…

Poster showing Ronald Reagan as Rambo.

T-shirt encouraging union participation using the slogan 'Organize!' The image depicts a large number of small fishes collectively devouring a larger fish as a symbolic representation of the power the many can have if organized against the few.

This is from the 1972 re-election campaign for Richard Nixon for President of the United States. Nixon would later resign because of the Watergate scandle.

Uniform worn by supporters of Lyndon B Johnson for President.

This is a towel that was created a a joke. During one of the elections in which Reagan ran.

Jay Hoffman Political Button-
Democratic Nominee for the House of Representatives.
Photo was taken with Gary Hannig and Betsy Hannig.

Barack Obama for President and Joe Biden for Vice President--Political Button. Both Obama and Biden belong to the Democratic Party and they ran together in the Presidential elections of 2008 and 2012.

Political Button for Alan Dixon who was Secretary of State for Illinois from 1977-1981. He was also a member of the Democratic Party.