Handbag, Hubert H. Humphrey, 1968
date: label: date made
content: 1968
name: label: associated person
content: Mondale, Joan
notes: label: Description
content: Joan Mondale, wife of Humphrey protégé and future Democratic nominee Walter Mondale, showed her support for Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at the 1968 Democratic National Convention by carrying this handbag, made from a painted metal lunch pail, and wearing a matching dress and scarf. Humphrey won a hard-fought convention battle to become his party’s presidential nominee but lost the election by less than one percent of the vote to his Republican opponent, former vice president Richard Nixon.
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0529.03
label: accession number
content: 1981.0529
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0529.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lunch Box