[WILLKIE, Wendell (1892-1944)]. A group of broadsides, sheet music, and campaign ephemera, comprising:
Sale 1005 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Mar 1, 2022
Lots Close
Mar 8, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$500
Sold for $219
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[WILLKIE, Wendell (1892-1944)]. A group of broadsides, sheet music, and campaign ephemera, comprising:
Bottle from orange soda, brown glass, "Willkie Day Souvenir, Elwood, Ind." 7-3/4 in. high. With: a glass, "Wendell L. Willkie / Acceptance Speech / Aug. 17, 1940 / Elwood, Ind." Red and blue stars with Willkie's portrait in white striped area. 4-1/2" high. With: a small baseball bat - "Bat for Willkie, Elwood, Ind."14" long. With: Small Willkie pennant, 11-1/2 " long. With: Matchbook, "We the People want Willkie, and the matches have people on them - farmer, laborer, housewife, etc. With: outline of 48 states suggesting Roosevelt is a dictator like Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. And with two small ashtrays? or coasters? with Willkie on one (metal) (3" diam.) and a campaign slogan on the milk glass one (3-1/2" diam.).
Sheet music: Wendell Willkie goes to Washington. Words and Music by Murray Whitman and Noel Bear. Glory Publishing, 1940. Plus sheet music: On the Banks of the Wabash, by Paul Dresser; Win with Willkie: The Campaign Song; We want Willkie by R.W. White; We want Willkie by Helen Church and Martha Baird Allen; One World by Harold Dixon.
Souvenir fan from Wendell Willkie's Acceptance speech, Aug. 17, 1940. Verso shows Willkie as the "Hope of our Country." With 11 x 14" poster announcing the speech at Elwood. 11x 14" poster of Willkie. With: 9 x 12 poster of Willkie.
Two ribbons, "Willkie" and "Willkie War Veteran."
And with 11 x 20 poster with 1940 Republican Ticket for Erie County.
Collection of Tom Charles Huston
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