Artifact Photo Gallery

Buttons

The wide variety of buttons may represent "hand-me-downs" used by enslaved workers on their garments (a - flat copper alloy disc with eye and remains of gilt sunburst decoration, late 18th/early 19th c.; b - slightly domed copper alloy disc with replaced eye, 2nd qtr. 19th c.; c - copper alloy with concentric circles pattern; d - dome glass or jet with copper alloy back and ferrous eye; e - porcelain Prosser type; f - bone; g - copper alloy with concentric circle face decoration and “N.R.CO./P=T” backmark, manufactured by the Novelty Rubber Co., 1855–1870).

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