If history is any guide, some of those buttons will soon be in Bengston’s massive collection. Bengston is Minnesota’s most prolific collectors of political trinkets.

Mike Mulhern began collecting presidential campaign buttons six decades ago, and one of the most important museums in the country has taken notice of his collection.

Mark van Gorder of Napa looks through a button collection that belonged to his great-grandmother. The collection (which includes 3,000 buttons) recently passed down to Mark, but he'd like to find ...

Over the past 45 years, he’s amassed a collection of more than a thousand buttons- showing the hopes and dreams of candidates who were victorious, and those who were not.

From politics to sports, Alan Rosenzweig has amassed a collection of nearly a quarter-million buttons over 50 years.

Russell Rubert, of King of Prussia, is an avid collector who has turned his home on Hillview Road into a showcase for View Master viewers, antique telephones, and, most recently, political ...

Collecting these buttons has been a years-long community initiative, with each button “symbolizing a Jewish child murdered during the Holocaust,” a press release from Bristol Community College ...

Button collecting has been popular since at least the 1930s. Mary Jane Koenig, president of the French Creek Valley club, has seen buttons from about the 14th century on, many of which have far ...

Some people get a new Three Rivers Festival button every year to collect them all.

As we celebrate opening day of Riverfest in Wichita, two sisters are working to continue their late grandpa's legacy by completing his Riverfest button collection.