Orion A. Teal

Graduate Student

Department of History

Duke University

 

Gallery

I collect radical polticial memrobilia and ephemera. Below are a few pinbacks and stamps from my collection. Enjoy.

Socialist Party and Industrial Workers of the World pins, 1910-30s.

Communist pins featuring Lenin, 1930s.

Pins supporting the Abraham Lincoln Brigade one of the American brigades to fight for Loyalist Spain during the late 1930s, International Women's Day, and May Day, 1920s-30s.

Pins from the Browder-Ford Campaign, including a pin with his slogan: "Communism is 20th Century Americanism." 1936 or '40.

National Negro Congress founding convention pin and Scottsboro stamps issued by the International Labor Defense, mid-1930s

Labor cause pins, 1940s.

Ephemera from Henry Wallace's presidential campaign on the Progressive Party ticket, 1948.

Congress of Racial Equality and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Comittee pins, mid 1960s.

Leftist cause pins, late 1960s - early 1970s.

African Americans on third-party tickets, late 1960s.

Antiwar pins from late 1960s.