MEMORIAL BUTTON FROM 1917 FOR I.W.W. LEADER FRANK LITTLE LYNCHING VICTIM.
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Auction #209 - Part I
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Item Description
7/8" with back paper from Torsch & Franz Badge Co. Balto., Md. Tiny dent on reverse collet. Front reads "Remember Frank H. Little/Aug. 1, 1917" with his photo at the center. On that day he was taken from his boarding house in Butte, Montana and lynched from a railroad trestle. Little was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World general executive board. NM displaying Mint. Only example we've seen.
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