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The American Political Items Collectors is a 501(c)3 non profit organization founded in 1945 to encourage the study, collecting, and preservation of political campaign memorabilia. [1] [2] It is the largest organization of political memorabilia collectors in the United States. The group actively seeks to educate the general public about ...
Scouting memorabilia collecting is the hobby and study of preserving and cataloging Boy Scouting and Girl Guiding items for their historic, aesthetic and monetary value. Since collecting depends on the interests of the individual collector, the depth and breadth of each collection varies. Some collectors choose to focus on a specific subtopic ...
The inauguration of Barack Obama as president is more than a key moment in history. For presidential memorabilia collectors, it's another jump-start to the Obama souvenir market that has grown ...
Police memorabilia collecting is a hobby involving the collection and trading of law enforcement -related items such as patches, badges, uniforms, equipment, hats, helmets, training manuals, medals, and decommissioned or restored police cars. [a] Memorabilia generally focuses on collecting historical artifacts such as turn-of-the-century screw ...
Autograph collecting is the practice of collecting autographs of famous persons. Some of the most popular categories of autograph subjects are politicians, military soldiers, athletes, movie stars, artists, social and religious leaders, scientists, astronauts, and authors . Some collectors may specialize in specific fields (such as Nobel Prize ...
Transportation. Automobilia [18] [19] Classic cars. Vintage cars. Bicycles. Railroadiana, collectibles associated with railroads. Petroliana, collectibles associated with the petroleum industry.
The Presidential Issue, nicknamed the Prexies by collectors, is the series of definitive postage stamps issued in the United States in 1938, featuring all 29 U.S. presidents who were in office between 1789 and 1928, from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. The presidents appear as small profile busts printed in solid-color designs through 50 ...
These surveys collect presidential rankings from historians, political scientists, and presidential scholars in a range of attributes, abilities, and accomplishments. [9] The 1994 survey placed only two presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, above 80 points and two presidents, Andrew Johnson and Warren G. Harding, below 50 points.