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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8271565, member: 20201"]1901 Pan American ExpositionBuffalo New YorkEncased Indian CentLucky Penny Souvenir [ATTACH=full]1459936[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1459937[/ATTACH] There were numerous varieties of encased cents for this exposition and for many others. This is one of the more commonly found varieties for this exposition but the price was right and the condition is acceptable. ( for me anyway ) As some may know, I try to have a ticket stub or some ephemera to accompany my exposition exonumia.I have several for this one. 1901 Pan American ExpositionDedication Day Ticket [ATTACH=full]1459945[/ATTACH] U.S. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt declared the formal opening of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on May 20th 1901. This ticket is for that dedication day.Roosevelt noted that "The century upon which we have just entered must inevitably be one of tremendous triumph or of tremendous failure for the whole human race, because, to an infinitely greater extent than ever before, humanity is knit together in all its parts for weal or for woe." On September 6, 1901, President McKinley arrived just on time to the Temple of Music at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo New York.The pipe organ began to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" as McKinley ordered the doors open to admit those who had waited to greet him.The police let them in, and McKinley prepared to perform his "favorite part of the job".An experienced politician, McKinley could shake hands with 50 people per minute, gripping their hands first so as to both guide them past him quickly and prevent his fingers from being squeezed.The procession of citizens shaking hands with their President was interrupted when 12-year-old, Myrtle Ledger of Spring Brook, New York, who was accompanied by her mother, asked McKinley for the red carnation he always wore on his lapel.The President gave it to her, then resumed work without his trademark good-luck piece.The usual rule that those who approached the President must do so with their hands open and empty was not being enforced, perhaps due to the heat of the day, as several people were using handkerchiefs to wipe their brows; the man who followed the swarthy individual had his right hand wrapped in one, as if injured.Seeing this, McKinley reached for his left hand instead. As the two men's hands touched at 4:07 pm, Czolgosz shot McKinley twice in the abdomen with a .32 Iver Johnson revolver concealed under the handkerchief.The president rose slightly on his toes before collapsing forward, saying “be careful how you tell my wife.”September 14, McKinley died from gangrene that had gone undetected in the internal wound.He was the third American president to have been assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and James A. Garfield in 1881.Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was immediately sworn in as president. My 1954 Topps Scoop non sports card [ATTACH=full]1459948[/ATTACH] 1901 Pan American ExpositionBuffalo Day Ticket [ATTACH=full]1459946[/ATTACH] 1901 Pan American ExpositionChilds Ticket [ATTACH=full]1459949[/ATTACH] 1901 Pan American ExpositionNo Overprint Ticket [ATTACH=full]1459950[/ATTACH] I have seen Railroad Day and Farewell Day November 2 overprints in red and Buffalo Day October 19 in blue ink or red. I have seen the red Childs ticket with Buffalo Day October 19 in blue ink. So there are a number of possibilities that one might find and could collect of this smaller size souvenir ticket stubs.This is my third different type of this one. 1901 Pan American ExpositionNew York Day Ticket [ATTACH=full]1459951[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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