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Title proper
Button collection
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Subseries
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[1936-1988] (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
ca. 2100 buttons and pins
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Archival description area
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Scope and content
The subseries contains buttons, pins, and other small objects that Adams collected related to numerous political and social justice movements he was interested in. Themes that the buttons and pins generally relate to include: Vancouver and British Columbia; Pop Culture; Conservation and the Environment; Communist China and Chairman Mao; Women and Minority Rights; Anti-Racism, Black Panther, and Black Liberation Movements; Workers' Rights; Latin America Anti-War and Resistance; Anti-War and Nuclear Power; the Vietnam War; American and Canadian Politics; Miscellaneous Activist Groups; and Miscellaneous buttons.
Also included are badges from Adams' time as a boy scout, ribbons from his high school years, buttons pinned onto felt mats, 4 buckles, 8 coins, and 1 key.
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Physical condition
Many of the buttons have begun to rust.
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
The buttons were roughly sorted into the categories in order to facilitate their storage, and east of their access and retrieval. Further arrangement and description may be done in the future by an individual with greater expertise.