Button

Museum number:
2-36892
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020036892
Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
Confederate brass coat button, figure in relief and motto "Sic semper tyrannus"; 7/8ths inches in diameter. Worn by Captain Bullocks when he was 18 years old. His mother was a Washington of Kentucky.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Virginia
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Buttons (fasteners)
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Button, accession number 2-36892, described as Confederate brass coat button, figure in relief and motto "Sic semper tyrannus"; 7/8ths inches in diameter. Worn by Captain Bullocks when he was 18 years old. His mother was a Washington of Kentucky.

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