Hudson-Fulton Celebration

Hudson-Fulton Celebration Event Busy Beaver Button Company
Category
Event
Additional Images
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Back Event Busy Beaver Button Company
Sub Categories
Illustrations
Litho
Text on Button HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION ROBERT FULTON CLERMONT 1609-1909
Image Description

Color illustrations split the button into two halves: a man in a suit with curly brown hair on the left and a ship at sea on the right. Light brown rim with brown text on yellow banners on the top and bottom. 
Back Paper / Back Info

W.F. MILLER Patent [union bug] Applied for 158 Park Row, New York
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
7/8 inch
Year / Decade Made
1909
1900s
The Manufacturer
W.F. Miller
Additional Information

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration was a two week-long event that occurred in late 1909 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River, as well as the 100th anniversary of Robert Fulton’s invention of the steamboat.  It took place along the Hudson River in New York, and many towns participated.
Sources

“Hudson Fulton Celebration 1909 | New York Heritage.” Nyheritage.org, nyheritage.org/collections/hudson-fulton-celebration-1909.
Catalog ID EV0962