History

Below is a list of newspaper articles that were scanned from a Hutchinson Kansas Button Member's scrapbooks. According to the inscription in the front of the scrapbook, the Hutchinson Button club was organized June 6, 1941. No other information was given as to the origin of these scrapbooks. If someone has other articles they would like posted, please scan them and send them to the Mary Anne Melloy at mamelloy@gmail.com.

Article Title

Date

Publication

Type

19th Annual NBS Announcement - Wichita, KS 10/24/1957   Announcement Card
400 Button Exhibits at Wichita Meeting 9/30/1945 Wichita Eagle Article & Picture
6 to Enter Button Show     Article
60,000 Buttons... on this kings' Coronation suit     Article & Picture
A Button Can Be A Treasure to 200 Fans Here This Week 10/29/1950 Kansas City Star Article & Picture
Anatomy of a Burned Out Button Collector     Drawing
Annual Meeting 11/18/1948 Wichita Beacon Picture
Antiques in Miniature 4/6/1951   Article
Between You & Me/ Of Course No Button Exhibit Would be Complete without Baseball represented 10/29/1949 Cleveland News Article
Boy Crashes Button Meet, Big Stronghold of Women 3/27/1948   Article & Picture
Button Article: Mrs. M.S. Carpenter     Article
Button at the Button Show Here Are Not Just Everyday Buttons 4/19/1952   Article & Picture
Button Club Members Met 11/20/1948 Wichita Eagle Picture
Button Club Will Open Its Annual Show Today     Article & Picture
Button Club: Jessie Weesner, Margaret Parker, Olena Moon, Hazel Strong, Georgia Clough, Georgeanne Russell, Hortense Scales, Blanche Hamby, Mamie Wage, Edna Bailey     Picture
Button Collecting Hobby Brings National Honor to Hutchinson: H.L. Scales 2/12/1950 Hutchinson News-Herald Article & Picture
Button Pictures Take Plenty of Time and Thousands of Buttons 5/5/1949 Hutchinson News-Herald Article & Picture
Button Show is Held Here 5/5/1949 Hutchinson News-Herald Article & Picture
Button,Button Who's Got Etc. - Mary Florence Lawton, Mrs. Robert Hill, Mrs. Clement Strong     Article & Picture
Buttons Are Only One Phase of Hobbies in a Family Here: Mrs. Charles Hitchcock 10/3/1952   Article & Picture
Buttons by the Bushel: Helen B. Moody     Article & Picture
Buttons Display Gains Popularity - Bertha Hoffman     Article & Picture
Buttons Take on Great Value For Those having Rare Collections 11/24/1950 Tribune-News Article & Picture
Buttons Tell History     Article
Buttons, 40,000 of All Kinds: Annie May Goetz, Pryor, KS     Article & Picture
Cavalier Cuff Button     Ad
Club Unbuttons Show of 3000 Adornments 5/3/1949 LA Times Article & Picture
Exhibit Button Display at Wichita Art Museum 4/10/1953 Wichita Eagle Article & Picture
Finds Old Buttons Fasten-ating: A.C. Sauberli, Lyons, KS     Article & Picture
Fredonia Woman Competes 2-Yr Term As President of State Button Society: Ethel Wakeland     Article & Picture
Hobby Dates Back to Dirty Thirties     Article & Picture
Hortense Scales: A Tribute 1/1/1957 NBS Article & Picture
Judge Button Exhibits 4/6/1951 Wichita Eagle Picture
Kansas Collectors' Buttons Attract Many to Show Here 9/20/1946 Wichita Eagle Articles & Pictures
Kansas State Button Show Held in Manhattan/ 6,000 Buttons 11/27/1949   Article & Picture
Kansas State Fair 9/17/1955   Picture
KBS Will Hold Annual Meeting 11/19/1948 Wichita Eagle Article & Picture
Leaders of State Button Club 10/16/1948 Wichita Eagle Article & Picture
Los Angeles Button Club Holds its Annual Show     Article & Picture
Many an old Button Worth Weight in Gold to Collectors 6/29/1942   Article
Mrs. Starkey displays part of her button collection 1/1/1971   Picture
Newton Club Gathers Many Buttons in Score of Years     Article & Picture
Original Ike Campaign Button Known     Article
Polly's Diary  3/18/1956 Wichita Beacon Article
Polly's Diary/ KBS Dinner Meeting/ Button Club Convene 1946-1948 Wichita Beacon Article
Rare Buttons on Display at Art Museum 4/8/1951 Wichita Beacon Articles & Pictures
Rare buttons to Go on Show     Article
Sentimental Buttons/ Buttons, Buttons 3/20/1956 Wichita Beacon Pictures
Shows Buttons 4/7/1951 Wichita Beacon Picture
Speaking of Pictures (showroom floor)     Picture
State Button Exhibit to Begin Here On Saturday/State Button Exhibit to Begin Here on Sat./State Button Show Opens Saturday at Art Museum 4/16/1953 Wichita Eagle Article & Picture
State Button Show Opens Saturday at Art museum 4/16/1953 Wichita Eagle Articles & Pictures
State Button Society/Button Expert: Emma Lou Wolff/ Ethel Wakeland 10/27/1953 Iola Register Article & Picture
The Hortense Scales Memorial Bowl     Article
To Display Their Buttons     Article
Tulsa Woman Head of Oklahoma Button Society: Mrs. V.B. Dowell     Article
Unique and Unusual: Button Show     Article
Various Button Article 9/19/1946 Wichita Eagle Articles
Visiting Boston Couple say Travel is antidote to Age     Article & Picture
Washington Inaugural Button in Collection: Edith Darby 1/24/1949 LA Times Article & Picture
Who First Used     Article
Who's Got the Button     Article
Wichitan Heads Button Fanciers/ Button Collectors' Meet to End Today 3/16/1946 Wichita Eagle Article & Picture

 

 

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