Buttons - Activist - 1980s

I am a Blood Donor

Phone photo 1917

Olympia, Washington

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 7

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 7

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

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Phone photo 1916

Buttons - Activist - 21st Century

Pink Ribbon

Phone photo 1915

Tumwater, Washington

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 6

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 6

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

Bottom margin has a few lines where I was apparently testing out the pen width. 

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Phone photo 1914

Village Post Office, Malone, WA 98559

Buttons - Activist - 1990s

Drug Abuse Resistance Education, D.A.R.E. To Say No To Drugs

Phone photo 1913

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 5

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 5

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990

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Phone photo 1912

Buttons - Activist - ca. 1988

I'm Registered to Vote, Are You?

On the curl: The Button Lady, Olympia, WA 98507, (206) 352-9511

Phone photo 1911

The Windermere Real Estate headquarters in Centralia, Washington

In the early 20th century this was the home of my great-grandparents, Theodore and Jennie Hoss. My Mother was born in this place. Supposedly, the ghost of my great-great grandfather, Walter Francis "Frank" Reeves, a crusty Wolverine Civil War vet, and later a civilian Custer scout (according to family lore) who came to Washington before statehood, died at the breakfast table in this house in 1916 and is still hanging around as a ghost there. Frank saw some horrible stuff in the Civil War, being at Cold Harbor and The Wilderness. He was also at Appomattox. I'm told he considered U.S. Grant, quote, "A drunken butcher."

I am so grateful to Windermere for preserving this structure. They did a beautiful and impressive job. This home was, I'm told, designed by the same architect who created Hoquiam's Castle.

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 4

 

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 4

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990

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Phone photo 1910

Buttons - Activist - 21st Century

iVote

www.vote.wa.gov

I live in a town where the Mayor's race tied, twice in a row, 1969 and 1973! They had to draw out of the Sheriff's hat to determine the winner both times. Same two guys, same Sheriff. The incumbent won the first time, the challenger the second time. 

Sometimes your vote can count. 

Phone photo 1909

Winlock, Washington

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 3

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 3

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990. Bottom margin includes a scratched note to myself about cross-hatching, apparently. Reverse side has the start of a poster for the play Bootleg (1989), but for some reason I stopped early.

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SOLD!

Phone photo 1908

Vader, Washington

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

Phone photo 1907

Vader, Washington

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 2

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 2

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

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Phone photo 1906

Near Vader, Washington

Buttons - Activist - 1974

WIN

On the curl: Bastian Bros Co, Rochester, NY

The brainchild of the Ford Administration, this was an acronym for "Whip Inflation Now." But rather than the grassroots wave the President was hoping for, the WIN campaign became the butt of jokes from a cynical public weary of Watergate and politicians.

Phone photo 1905

Cowlitz Landing

"At this place Hudson's Bay Company traders from Puget Sound loaded furs in canoes for transport to the Columbia River in the years 1836-1846. Then American settlers came up the river by bateau, barge and raft. A landing was built on the donation claim of F.A. Clarke and a hotel on the adjoining land of E.D. Warbuss. American settlers held a convention here in 1851 and petitioned for a new U.S. Territory north of the Columbia River. Steamboats came in 1858. They served the Cowlitz Valley until 1917."

"Erected by the Washington State Highway Commission."

My own ancestors may have landed here in the mid-1870s. This historic marker is within a stone's throw of the biggest "EAT" sign on Interstate 5 in Washington.

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 1

 

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 1. A standalone page.

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

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Phone photo 1904

U-Wauna deserted restaurant

Wauna, Oregon

Buttons - Activist - 1981

Immoral Minority

A button that cropped up in response to the "Moral Majority"

Phone photo 1903

Public trashcans in Astoria, Oregon cleverly celebrate their history of canning fish