Match safe, William McKinley, 1890s
notes: label: Description
content: This match safe commemorates William McKinley, twice the successful Republican presidential candidate. Metal match safes, popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, allowed smokers to carry friction matches without fear they would rub together and burst into flame in their pockets. McKinley defeated the same Democratic opponent, William Jennings Bryan, in 1896 and 1900.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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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: 2015.0200.089
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0200.089
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
objectType: label: Object Name
content: matchsafe?
label: Object Name
content: matchsafe
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 6.985 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm