Mette Hornung Rankin rediscovered her button collection and wondered, “Would they reveal anything about my childhood that I had forgotten? Would they say anything about my current state, 20 years later?”
She answers this and more questions with an autobiography told through buttons on the Bureau of Betterment website here. Highly recommended!
Many button collectors are familiar with the classic, “I Like Ike” button. Here you see the memorable slogan translated in Greek during the 1950s on a campaign button.
The antique button was spotted around the 2:36 minute mark of a video for the Gabby Awards, an annual event that commemorates Greek Americans.
Buttons are a graphic way to learn about history, and this Greek endorsement of an American candidate symbolizes politics from over half a century to this day.
