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Title	Button, 4th of July, Gastonia, 1912
Description	Button promoting a 4th of July celebration in Gastonia, North Carolina. The button has an off-white background and blue and red text reading: "Gastonia/ July/ 4th/ 1912/ Is A Busy Town." Dimensions: 32 mm diameter.
Date	1912
Subject (tgm)	Buttons (Information artifacts) Memorabilia Holidays
Subject Geographic	Gastonia (N.C.)
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Notes	Booster buttons for towns were once common; this example doubles as a holiday promotion. A June 26, 1912 article in the Charlotte Evening Chronicle newspaper announced that the Fourth of July celebration in nearby Gastonia, North Carolina, was "to be Elaborate Affair" and that "the city is quite up to its slogan" that "Gastonia is a busy town." The writer reported that there would be a Fourth of July parade with floats constructed by some of the numerous Gastonia textile mills as well as several schools. An award was to be presented to the best-decorated automobile in the parade.
Form	Buttons (Information artifacts)
Digital Collection	Lew Powell
Repository	North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Citation	North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Button, 4th of July, Gastonia, 1912

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