Buttons - Events - 1974

McCleary 2nd Growth & Bear Festival

16th Annual

July 19-20-21-1974

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Buttons - Events - 1966

McCleary 2nd Growth & Bear Festival

8th Annual

July 15-16-17-1966

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Buttons - Events - 1987

Slug Festival '87

I [heart] Elma's Thelma

July 31 and Aug. 1

Elma, WA

98541

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Buttons - Activist - 1999

Help Us Build, Sept. 22-26, 1999

I Support the Jaycees and the East County Playground Project

On the curl: GH Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

This button was promoting a playground project in Elma, Washington

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1984

Mondale Ferraro

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

My Mom dug this out last week and contributed to the visual cause

Buttons - Union - 1989

FIGHT BACK! Save BENEFITS!

WFSE/AFSCME

On the curl: Grays Harbor Stamp Works 800-894-3830

Buttons - Union - 1989

United Together For a STRONG CONTRACT!

WFSE/AFSCME

On the curl: Grays Harbor Stamp Works 800-894-3830

Buttons - Union - 1989

Save Our State

WFSE/AFSCME

On the curl: Grays Harbor Stamp Works 800-894-3830

Buttons - Union - 1989

 

 PAY State Employees FAIRLY, WPEA

Curl has: Grays Harbor Stamp Works, 800.894.3830

I suspect this dates back to the 1989 Washington State surplus budget issue and Governor Gardner not honoring his political promises to the Washington Public Employees Association.

Buttons - Union - 1990s?

 

UFCW Local 44, AFL-CIO-CLC

Under the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Buttons - Union - 1979

IBEW, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 9th District, Local 46, May 1979

Under the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Buttons - Union - 1942

Lumber & Sawmill Workers Loc. 2761, U.B.of C. & J. of America, Labor Omnia Vincit, A.F. of L., Oct Nov Dec 1942

Curl has: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Buttons - State Campaign - 1988

Re-Elect Bob Basich, State Representative, Democrat

Washington State House Rep Basich served the 19th District (Grays Harbor area) in the 1980s and 1990s. I am pretty sure I picked up this button in 1988.

Under the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1992

Clinton Gore '92

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

Notice the union label is part of the display.

In 1992 I saw something I have never seen in a presidential election before or since. In McCleary, a town with a healthy chunk of 1938-1940 immigrants from Arkansas (I live in a part of town known as Arkie Hill), there were home-made signs for Clinton in front yards. In fact as I recall, in our town, George Herbert Walker Bush, the Republican incumbent, placed third behind Clinton and Perot in 1992.

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1988

Dukakis Bentsen

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, WA

Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1932? 1936? 1940? 1944?

Roosevelt

Curl says "G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash."