Button Collection (page 4)

Policemen, Rotterdam, 1898. Artist: James Batkin
Policemen, Rotterdam, 1898. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898)

Wesley Merritt, Union Army general, 1862-1867. Artist: J Rogers
Wesley Merritt, Union Army general, 1862-1867. Merritt (1834-1910) was a noted cavalry commander during the Civil War. He later commanded the 9th Cavalry on the western frontier

General Maurice Sarrail, Allied commander in Greece during World War I, (1926). Sarrail (1856-1929) commanded the French 3rd Army on the Western Front from August 1914

Major-General ETH Hutton, commanding 1st Mounted Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1902. Artist: Bassano Studio
Major-General Edward Thomas Henry Hutton, commanding 1st Mounted Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1902. Hutton (1848-1923) went on to be the first organiser of the Australian Army

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as a grammar school pupil, Simbirsk, Russia, 1879
Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as grammar school pupil, Simbirsk, Russia, 1887. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903

A Man with a Double Sack, c1725-1778. Artist: Francois Duparc
A Man with a Double Sack, c1725-1778. Found in the collection of the Musee de Longchamps, Marseilles

Jemmy Button, the Fuegian adopted by Fitzroys expedition, in 1834 (1839). During 1833 when Jemmy was living with the expedition, he was dressed in European clothes and his hair was cut short

Jemmy Button, the Fuegian adopted by the Fitzroy expedition, as he appeared in 1833 (1839). In 1834, after his return to his tribe, all trace of European influence disappeared

Button Maker, 1823. Stamping out metal buttons. A blank is held in place and a weight holding the die for the pattern being worked is raised by a rope and pulley wheel and dropped onto the blank

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, American soldier, 1863. Beauregard (1813-1893) served as a general in the Confederate army in the American Civil War

Braxton Bragg, American soldier. Bragg (1817-1876) was a general in the Confederate (southern) army during the American Civil War

Identification button used by Thomas Porter II, ca. 1820. Creator: Unknown
A round copper-alloy button with the initials " T*P" on the front. This button would have been sewn onto an enslaved persons shirt to identify him or her as belonging to Thomas Porter II

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