The origin of the Advertising Button:
Advertising buttons came from political buttons. George Washington
wore the first political button in 1789 at his first Inauguration in New York.
He, and many present, wore buttons, but these buttons were clothing buttons
made of brass and proudly reading "G.W.-Long Live the President", modeling
the phrase "Long live the King."
In the 1860 campaign of Abraham Lincoln the likeness of a President
was available for use on campaign buttons and devices for the first time
because of the advent of the tintype or ferrotype photo process. For the
first time a voter hundreds of miles away from Washington could actually
see what a candidate for President looked like.
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