These buttons are from the collection I started when I was ten years old. I went to Expo '67 in Montreal, Canada with my parents and bought a black felt hat with this pin on it. I kept adding pins and buttons until the hat weighed a ton, and then literally fell apart -- when I began to display them on a large piece of cloth.
This group is a pretty random assortment from the collection over the past four decades -- Democratic presidential election buttons, leftist political buttons, buttons for music groups and TV shows, and a couple of simply silly ones. What's missing? My special sub-collection of Christmas humbug buttons, my swimming badges, school-spirit buttons, advertising buttons, and event-related buttons for things like winter carnivals, etc. I may feel inclined to add to this virtual collection from time to time, but in the meantime, enjoy!
This last one is just for Jessica, a junior at St. Paul's, who just told me she's considering applying Wellesley... Now I've got to get MHC on the list! She justly berated me for not having anything original at St. Paul's internal website, thus prodding me into creating this page. I've transfered it over to the "real" Web because I found I like the page so much myself and wanted to share it.I got the original of this pin from a gumball machine in the mid-sixties, paired in a little plastic ball with a Boris Karloff/Frankenstein button, which I also still have.