Box 5

Record Group — Box: 5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection contains 401 buttons for political candidates primarily for the offices of U.S. President and Vice President. The lists for the buttons are separated into Democrat, Republican and other parties or state or local candidates. Only the wording on the buttons was transcribed with the exception of those buttons with only pictures. Multiple copies of the same button were grouped together when possible. The shapes of the buttons are identified as round, square, rectangle or oval. Buttons with numbers between 1 and 176 are larger than 2”. Other items include: one poster for Wendell Willkie; multiple copies for many of the bumper stickers; and one button catalog.

Dates

1940 - 2004

Conditions Governing Acess

The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility.