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Guide to the John Brademas Congressional Papers MC.168

Series VI: Memorabilia

Scope and Contents note

This series contains a small sampling of items collected by Brademas, including pens used by Presidents Johnson, Ford and Carter to sign laws and a collection of campaign buttons. It also contains two sets of prints by artists Robert Indiana and Robert Rauschenberg that were used as fundraisers for Brademas's re-election campaigns.

See folders "Awards and Honors" in Series II, Subseries III: Personal for information regarding plaques, certificates, citations and other honors awarded to Brademas.

Pen used by Gerald Ford to sign HR 69, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Oct 1974

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Jimmy Carter to sign HR 3477, the Minimum Wage Bill, Nov 1, 1977

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Jimmy Carter to sign undentified bill, undated, inclusive

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign HR 10923, an Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey the Argos National Fish Hatchery in Indiana to the Izaak Walton League, Aug 3, 1968

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign HR 11542, an Act for the relief of Marshall County, Indiana, Jan 2, 1968

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign HR 12120, an Act to assist the courts, correctional systems, community agencies, and primary and secondary public school systems to prevent, treat, and control juevnile delinquency…, Jul 31, 1968

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign HR 2516, an Act to prescribe penalties for certain acts of violence or intimidation, and for other purposes., Apr 11, 1968

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign HR2580, an Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes., Oct 3, 1965

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign HR 3708, an Act to provide assistance in the development of ...programs to help older persons…and to establish within the HEW an operating agency to be designated as the "Administration on Aging.", Jul 14, 1965

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign HR 7819, an Act to strengthen, improve, and extend programs of assistance for elementary and secondary education, and for other purposes., Jan 2, 1968

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign HR 8131, an Act to extend the Juvenile Delinquency & Youth Offenses Control Act of 1961, Jul 1965

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign S 1483, an Act to provide for the establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts in the US, and for other purposes., Sep 29, 1965

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sweatshirt with Brademas image

Box: VI:01 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Napkin: Democratic Kick-Off Dinner, Mar 8, 1979

Box: VI:02 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Record: Special Joint Session of Congress in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, Feb 12, 1959

Box: VI:02 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

T-shirt: "Jimmy & Fretz in '76", 1976, inclusive

Box: VI:02 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

US Flag, undated

Box: VI:02 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Plaques, 1960-1977, inclusive

Box: VI:03 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Awards and Certificates (framed), 1959-1968, inclusive

Box: VI:04 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Awards and Certificates (framed), 1968-1970, inclusive

Box: VI:05 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Indiana State Flag (framed)

Box: VI:06 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Robert Rauschenberg "Untitled '73" prints, 1973

Flat-File-Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Robert Indiana "Indiana 4 Brademas" prints, 1980

Flat-File-Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jack Perlmutter Campaign Poster, Inscribed, 1976

Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Campaign Photo Poster, undated

Folder: 1 Left (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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