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Collectors' Corner
The McIllroy Button Collection
 Marguerite
McIllroy started collecting buttons in the early 1930s. Eventually,
her collection grew to almost a thousand buttons of fabric, metal,
celluloid, wood, porcelain, glass, rubber and other materials. Mrs.
McIllroy was the wife of Lt. Col. Fred W. McIllroy, the Fort Worden
Commandant from 1950 to 1953. This popular collection was donated to JCHS in
1981 and was on exhibit for many years in the JCHS research library in the Port
Townsend city hall building. It has been stored away since removal for the
building's restoration. View these little masterpieces in the Collections Corner
in the Fire Hall Gallery in the museum.
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