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inneroptics: Abolitionist Button, 1840s–50sUnknown Artist  May be one of the first political buttons made in America to incorporate a photograph. Believed to be unique, the miniature daguerreotype shows two hands held together, one black, one white, resting on a book assumed to be the Bible. 


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Abolitionist Button, 1840s–50s
Unknown Artist

 May be one of the first political buttons made in America to incorporate a photograph. Believed to be unique, the miniature daguerreotype shows two hands held together, one black, one white, resting on a book assumed to be the Bible. 

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