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![Alpha Chi Rho Button, c.1950 Alpha Chi Rho Button, c.1950](https://archives.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/artifacts_browse/public/image_artifact/ac00863.jpg?itok=2MlZga1i)
This Alpha Chi Rho fraternity button has a white background with "Crows" written in red lettering.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00863
Location: Shelf 25 (housed with AC 00864, AC 00865, AC 00866, AC 00867, AC 00868, and AC 00869)
Subject: Buttons, Greek Life
Format: Pins/Buttons
Four gold tone buttons with the navy emblem in a small canvas drawstring bag with "547138 Navy" printed in black ink.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00308
Location: Shelf 20 (housed with AC 00297-00307)
Format: Miscellaneous, Pins/Buttons
Button made by Dickinson College celebrating Carlisle and Cumberland County’s sesqui-centennial anniversary in 1901.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00488
Location: Shelf 25 (housed with AC 00418-00422, AC 00448-00449, AC 00484, AC 00541)
Subject: Anniversaries, Buttons, Carlisle, Cumberland County
Format: Pins/Buttons
![Felt Beret Felt Beret](https://archives.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/artifacts_browse/public/image_artifact/AC%2000015_1.jpg?itok=C99NBH2O)
Felt armbands, beret and pin for the Dickinson class of 1926 and a Carlisle High School pennant.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00015
Location: Shelf 10
Subject: Buttons, Carlisle High School
Format: Flags/Pennants/Banners, Hats
White round commencement buttons and one oval commencement buttons with,“My Name is James A. Strite, ’29.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00476
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round button with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00210
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round buttons with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is E. R. Heckman, ’97.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00213
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round buttons with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is C. B. Stoner, '23.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00214
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round button with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is Robert E. Faddis, ’24.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00212
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White round button with college seal and name, and “Commencement” in red, with “My Name is Dean Hoffman,” a member of the Class of 1949.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00211
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Commencement, Buttons, College Traditions
Format: Pins/Buttons
White button with red lettering, “Dickinson College 1910.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00199
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
Red and white button with name of Whitfield Jenks Bell, Jr. and “Dickinson College Freshman” in red.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00209
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
Round white button with “Dickinson College Democrats” and Democratic donkey in red.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00204
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215, etc.)
Subject: Buttons, Dickinson Democrats
Format: Pins/Buttons
White circle with red college seal, lettering, and space to write a name, created for Guest Day on April 24, 1937.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00198
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00189-00193, etc.)
Format: Pins/Buttons
Round white pin with red lettering, “Dickinson College Orientation Committee FRIEND.”
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00196
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215)
Subject: Buttons, Orientation
Format: Pins/Buttons
Freshman button worn as name tag by Lewis Gobrecht '55 while attending Dickinson College as a student. Gobrecht majored in Political Science and History at Dickinson and was an active member of the College Choir, Glee Club, and the Dickinson Follies theater group. Gobrecht went on to have a long career teaching middle-school history in Carlisle.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00470
Location: Shelf 2 (housed with 00432-00436, 00443, 00459)
Subject: Freshman Buttons, Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
Buttons worn as name tags by Lewis Gobrecht '55 while attending Dickinson College Commencement and Dickinson College Guest Day as a student. Gobrecht majored in Political Science and History and was an active member of the College Choir, Glee Club, and the Dickinson Follies theater group. Gobrecht went on to have a long career teaching middle-school history in Carlisle.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00433
Location: Shelf 2 (housed with 00432-00436, 00443, 00459, 00470)
Subject: Commencement, Guest Day, Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
Three teal and white round metal buttons with "1991, Metzger-Conway Series, October 16-18" in white and grey.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00207
Location: Shelf 17 (housed with 00194, 00206-00208, 00216)
Subject: Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
Round, white button distributed at Orientation 1985. In red reads: "Dickinson College Class of ’89."
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00560
Location: Shelf 16
Subject: Orientation, Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
Two rectangular buttons from the 2004 presidential election campaign. "Rush the Vote, Dickinson College 2004" is printed in white around the picture of the statue of Benjamin Rush. "Your Vote Counts" is printed in red in a circle on the lower left corner.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00487
Location: Shelf 17 (housed with 00194, 00206-00208, 00216)
Subject: Buttons, Politics, Political Campaign, Elections, Student Life
Format: Pins/Buttons
Two orange buttons the black text 'Dr. E. O. Wilson "The Future of Life" Thursday, October 19th, Dickinson College 2000 Priestley Award' situated around an image of three ants and a DNA strand in the center.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00451
Location: Shelf 18 (housed with AC 00452, AC 00453)
Subject: Buttons, Priestley Award
Format: Pins/Buttons
Thirteen round metal buttons of various size featuring the annual Public Affairs Symposium title and dates. Two buttons for the United Nations Symposium (1995), three buttons for the Environment Symposium (1990), one button for the PAS Sport Symposium (1987), two buttons for the American Education Symposium (1988), one button for the Contemporary Family (1989), two buttons for the Media Symposium (1994), and two buttons for the Poverty in America Symposium (1992).
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00208
Location: Shelf 17 (housed with 00206-00207, etc.)
Subject: Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
Red round 1 ½” button printed with The Square, an alternative student newspaper, originally used as fundraiser, then given free to advertisers.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00573
Location: Shelf 25 (housed with AC 00418-00422)
Subject: Buttons
Format: Pins/Buttons
Round red pins with “Welcome to Dickinson” in white block letters.
Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00195
Location: Shelf 16 (housed with AC 00209-00215)
Subject: Buttons, Orientation
Format: Pins/Buttons
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