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  • Buttons of the British Army, 1855-1970.

    • Text
    • London, Arms and Armour Press, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 72-7055Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Antique buttons; their history and how to collect them.

    • Text
    • New York, Drake Publishers [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 73-475Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Record of American uniform and historical buttons ... 1775-1968 [by] Alphaeus H. Albert. [1st ed.

    • Text
    • Boyertown, Pa., Printed by Boyertown Pub. Co. 1969.
    • 1969
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMW (Albert, A. H. Record of American uniforms and hist. buttons)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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    Text 3-MMW (Albert, A. H. Record of American uniforms and hist. buttons) SupplementSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The colorful world of buttons / by Viviane Beck Ertell. 1st ed.

    • Text
    • Princeton, [N.J.] : Pyne Press ; [New York : distributed by Scribner], 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMV 76-1098Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Buttons : a collector's guide / by Victor Houart.

    • Text
    • London : Souvenir Press, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMW 78-2482Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Just buttons.

    • Southington, Conn., S. C. Luscomb.
    • 19 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    3-MMA (Just buttons.) v. 33-34 (Oct. 1974-Sep. 1976)Offsite
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    3-MMA (Just buttons.) v. 35-37 (Oct. 1976-Oct. 1978)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    3-MMA (Just buttons.) v. 37-38 (Nov. 1978-Dec. 1979)Offsite
  • American political badges and medalets, 1789-1892 / Edmund B. Sullivan.

    • Text
    • Lawrence, Mass. : Quarterman Publications, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text AWK 83-2426Offsite
  • Buttons : art in miniature / by Stefan O Schiff ; photography by David L. Atkins.

    • Text
    • Berkeley, Calif. : Lancaster-Miller, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMV 82-2334Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The big book of buttons / by Elizabeth Hughes ; Marion Lester.

    • Text
    • [Havertown, Pa. (P.O. Box 657, Havertown, 19083) : E. Hughes] 1981
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMW 86-3561Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • United States military buttons of the land services, 1787-1902 : a guide and classificatory system / by Martin A. Wyckoff ; illustrations by the author.

    • Text
    • Bloomington, Ill. : McLean County Historical Society, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 84-989Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Buttons in sets, 1896-1972 / by Marshall N. Levin & Theodore L. Hake.

    • Text
    • York, PA : Hakeʼs Americana & Collectibles Press, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MNH 86-2497Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Buttons : a guide for collectors / Gwen Squire.

    • Text
    • London : F. Muller, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMED 90-3962Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Collecting political buttons / Marc Sigoloff.

    • Text
    • Chicago, IL : Chicago Review Press, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IAG 88-2215Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The National button bulletin.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia [etc.],bNational Button Society.
    • 1947-present
    • 62 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQK 08-8Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108

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    Text JQK 08-8Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108

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    Text JQK 08-8Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108
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  • The collector's guide to buttons / Diana Epstein.

    • Text
    • New York : Walker, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MNH 91-6705Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Knopfdesign / Annette Wilzbach, Martina Wilzbach-Wald.

    • Text
    • Frankfurt am Main : Deutscher Fachverlag, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMW+ 91-8095Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Buttons / Diana Epstein, Millicent Safro ; foreword by Jim Dine ; preface by Tom Wolfe ; photography by John Parnell.

    • Text
    • New York : H.N. Abrams, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMW 91-9831Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Buttons for the collector.

    • Text
    • Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMW 91-2010Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Uniform buttons; Enfield Arsenal manual--Mark I. Photography by G.V. Rolph.

    • Text
    • Washington, Enfield Arsenal, c1965.
    • 1965
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 91-714Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Pin's passion / textes, Jean-Noël Mouret.

    • Text
    • [Paris?] : Hors collection : Presses de la Cité, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFG 01-997Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine

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  • La capilla del rosario y los botones del periodo republicano / Elpidio Ortega.

    • Text
    • Santo Domingo, República Dominicana : Comisión Dominicana Permanente para la Celebración del Quinto Centenario del Descubrimiento y Evangelización de América, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HPM 93-1948Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Stereoscopic views of the Mill River (Mass.) Flood, May, 1874 [graphic].

    • Still image
    • May, 1874.
    • 1874
    • 1 Resource

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  • Views in Mill River valley after the great flood of May 16, 1874 [graphic] / Knowlton Brothers.

    • Still image
    • Northampton, Mass. : Knowlton Brothers, May, 1874.
    • 1874
    • 1 Resource

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  • I bottoni : nell'arte e nella storia / Pietro Coccoluto Ferrigni, Yorick figlio di Yorick ; introduzione di Umberto Attardi.

    • Text
    • Napoli : Colonnese, [1992]
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MAD 93-9819Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Bottoni, bottoni & bottoni / Vittoria de Buzzaccarini, Isabella Zotti Minici.

    • Text
    • Modena, Italy : Zanfi, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMV+ 93-8616 v. 63Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Boutons / Thérèse Gandouet ; [photographies, Christiane et Michel Kempf].

    • Text
    • Paris : Editions de l'Amateur, [1984]
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMV 94-1393Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Art in buttons.

    • Text
    • Rochester, N.Y., German-American Button Co.
    • 1906-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Art in Buttons, Inc. v. 1-36 (Mar. 1906-Oct. 1931), inc.Offsite
  • The Inner circle letter / Bill Nelson.

    • Text
    • Tucson, Ariz. : B. Nelson
    • 1986-2001
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 95-832 v. 105-122 july 1995-dec. 1996Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 95-832 v. 123-146, inc. (1997-1998)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 95-832 v. 147-179 (Jan. 1999-Sept. 2001)Offsite
  • Discovering British military badges and buttons / R.J. Wilkinson-Latham.

    • Text
    • Princes Risborough : Shire Publications, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 96-3115Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Bead & button.

    • Text
    • Norwalk, CT : Conterie Press, c1994-
    • 1994-present
    • 24 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 96-418 no. 137-142 (2017)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 96-418 no. 143-148 (2018)SASB S3 - Periodicals Rm 108

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    Text JFM 96-418 no. 149-159 (2019-20) Inc.SASB S3 - Periodicals Rm 108

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  • Maine charm string, by Elinor Graham.

    • Text
    • New York, The Macmillan company, 1946.
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text AN (Graham) (Graham, E. M. Maine charm string)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • 50 heirloom buttons to make / Nancy Nehring ; photography by Marcus Tullis.

    • Text
    • Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMV 96-17443Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Washington historical buttons; Washington inaugural buttons, and other buttons bearing the portrait of Washington or alluding to him and his administration. With foreword by Edward H. Davis.

    • Text
    • Highstown, N.J. 1949.
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text AN (Washington) (Albert, A. H. Washington historical buttons)Temporary Storage

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  • Buttons of the Canadian militia, army, naval and air forces : 1900-1990 / Eric Smylie.

    • Text
    • St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Publishing, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 96-16045Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Political campaign and commemorative buttons; an illustrated catalog with descriptions of the buttons used during the various political campaigns including the Washington inaugural buttons and other commemorative and patriotic buttons, by Alphaeus H. Albert.

    • Text
    • Hightstown, N.J.] 1966.
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ID (Albert, A. H. Political campaign and commemorative buttons) 1966Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Buttons of the Confederacy; a descriptive and illustrated catalog of the buttons worn by the troops of the Confederates [sic] States of America, 1861-65.

    • Text
    • Hightstown, N.J.] 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IKP (Albert, A. H. Buttons of the Confederacy)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Buttons.

    • Text
    • New York, Walker [1968]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-19 1556Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Button classics [microform], by L. Erwina Couse and Marguerite Maple.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Lightner Publishing Co., 1948, c1941.
    • 1948-1941
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZV-1098Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW+ (Couse, L.E.B. Button classics)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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    Text VLV+ (Couse, L. E. B. Button classics) [Text]Offsite
  • Vollständiges Handbuch der Münzkunst, mit Einschluss des Medaillen-Prägens, der Scheidung des Goldes und Silbers aus ihren Legirungen, der Gravir- und Stempelschneidekunst, der Knopffabrication und anderer dahin gehöriger Arbeiten der Gold- und Silberarbeiter, der Gürtler, u.s.w. ...

    • Text
    • Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1855.
    • 1855
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MGQ (Harzer, F. Vollständiges Handbuch der Münzkunst)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The button string, by Thelma Shull.

    • Text
    • Chicago, Ill., Lightner publishing company [c1942]
    • 1942
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MMW+ (Shull, T. Button string)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • A button collector's second journal [by] Lillian smith Albert.

    • Text
    • Hightstown, N.J., [Yardley, Pa., The Cook Printers, c1941]
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Albert, L. S. Button collector's second journal)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The button sampler, by Lillian Smith Albert and Jane Ford Adams.

    • Text
    • New York, M. Barrows [1951]
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Albert, L. S. Button sampler)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The complete button book, by Lillian Smith Albert and Kathryn Kent [pseud.] With a foreword by Carl W. Drepperd.

    • Text
    • Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1949.
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Albert, L. S. Complete button book)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Button collecting, by Polly De Steiguer Crummett.

    • Text
    • [Chicago, Lightner publishing company, c1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Crummett, P. De S. Button collecting)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The button collector's history, by Grace Horney Ford, with drawings by Caroline Ford Brown and Sally Bryan Ford.

    • Text
    • Springfield, Mass. [Printed by the Pond-Ekberg company] [c1943]
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Ford, G. H. Button collector's history)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The American historical buttons [by] David F. Johnson.

    • Text
    • New Market, N.J. [c1942]
    • 1942
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Johnson, D. F. American historical buttons)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Supplement to the American historical buttons / by David F. Johnson.

    • Text
    • Dunellen, N.J. : D. F. Johnson, 1943.
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW Suppl (Johnson, D. F. Supplement to the American historical buttons)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Black glass buttons, by Nora Owens Jones [and] Edith Mattison Fuoss.

    • Text
    • Ypsilanti, Mich., University lithoprinters, 1945.
    • 1945
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Jones, N. O. Black glass buttons)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Check list, calico buttons.

    • Text
    • [South Hanover, Mass., c1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Morgan, W. B. Check list, calico buttons)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Button hand book; comparative values, serial numbers, 1943. [by] Florence Zacharie Ellis Nicholls.

    • Text
    • [Ithaca, N.Y., The Cayuga press, inc., 1943]
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MMW (Nicholls, F. Z. E. Button hand book)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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