Metal clip advertising the Evening Times. "The Evening Times, Rochester, N.Y. Circulates Broadly Among 218,149 City Buyers and as Many More in the Vicinity Towns," the pin boasts. According to Wikipedia, the Times-Union was founded in 1918 and ceased publication in 1997., undated

This collection consists of late 19th Century and early 20th Century pins related to Rochester New York. The material was collected by L. Warren Patterson of Spencerport, New York. The collection consists of pins and medals related to Rochester businesses, clubs, fraternal organizations, schools, special events, political campaigns, and veterans organizations. Other kinds of ephemera are also found in the collection, such as a shoehorn. Many of the pins were also manufactured in Rochester.