Yonkers Industrial Exposition

Yonkers Industrial Exposition Event Button Museum
Category
Event
Additional Images
Yonkers Industrial Exposition button back Event Button Museum
Text on Button YONKERS INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION AND PURE FOOD SHOW - MAY 24-JUNE 4- 1913 INDUSTRY UNITES US WITH THE WORLD BUY IN YONKERS
Image Description

Blue and white text in a red center circle.  White text on a blue outer border.
Back Paper / Back Info

The Whitehead & Hoag Co.
Buttons, Badges, Novelties and Signs
(union bug)
Newark, N.J.
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1913
1910s
Additional Information

The Yonkers Industrial Exposition and Pure Food Show was held at the State Armory on Maple and Waverly Streets in Yonkers, New York. The Yonkers Chamber of Commerce sponsored the event. It featured roughly 75 booths representing almost all of the manufacturers of Yonkers. The slogan for the expo “Industry Unites Us With the World” was selected from nearly 5,000 entries for a slogan contest that was held. Featured entertainment at the expo included musical performances and vaudeville acts direct from New York City.
Sources

Weigold, Marilyn., Yonkers Historical Society. Yonkers in the Twentieth Century. SUNY Press: 2014. p 41. (accessed on 2 AUG 2017 via Google Books. https://books.google.com).
Catalog ID EV0368