• Font Size    

Today's Most Popular Video

Truckers Sue For Unauthorized Citations
E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

Minn. Historical Society Collects RNC Artifacts

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

   Print     Share +   
Sep 23, 2008 6:43 am US/Central

Minn. Historical Society Collects RNC Artifacts

ST. PAUL (AP) ― The Minnesota Historical Society is collecting artifacts from the Republican National Convention held in St. Paul earlier this month.

Historical Society workers already have collected signs, pins, bumper stickers, buttons, T-shirts and credential badges.

Also saved: a 9-by-3-foot scrap of reddish carpet from the podium where GOP presidential nominee John McCain gave his acceptance speech.

Curator Matt Anderson says the society has some items mostly tickets and ribbons from the 1892 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, and staffers wish they had more.

This time, they persuaded convention organizers to give them three folding chairs.

The museum also scored one of the Minnesota delegation standards: the vertical, triangular signs that each state's delegates rally around on the convention floor.

-------

The Republican National Convention was held at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul from Sept. 1 through Sept. 4, 2008.



(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.