Barack Obama presidential campaign and inauguration collection

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Identifier: 6828

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Obama t-shirt and bumper sticker, and an extensive collection of newspapers and magazines about his Presidential campaign and inauguration. Magazines include many photographs of Michelle Obama and the Obama family as well as images of President Obama.

Obama t-shirts, hat, signs, bumper stickers, and buttons, collected from the campaign in Richmond, Virginia.

Items from the Obama inauguration including posters, newspapers, magazines, flyers, pins, invitations, and other ephemera. Includes an Obama Christmas ornament, and a key ring with ribbons from Miller and Rhoades, a now-defunct Richmond, VA department store.

Also newspapers, clippings, and other memorabilia, largely from the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and other Chicago sources from the first year of Obama's presidency.

Campaign items from the 2012 election.

Obama t-shirts, hat, buttons, bumper stickers, iPhone case and "Victory Counsel Virginia Voter Advocate Training Manual," collected by Larry Palmer, 2012.

Three lawn signs (New Mexico for Obama, Native Americans for Obama, Hispanics for Obama) and a New Mexico Obama button.

Cornell Daily Sun, November 7, 2012 and Inauguration “invitation,” 2012.

Dates

2008-2014.

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

7.2 cubic feet. (7.2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Obama t-shirt and bumper sticker, and an extensive collection of newspapers and magazines about his Presidential campaign and inauguration.

Physical Description

Memorabilia, newspapers, printed ephemera, publications

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Julia Parker
Date completed:: May 15, 2009
EAD encoding:: Julia Parker, May 15, 2009
Date modified:: Ben Wrubel, October 2018