Rare United States Lines Shipping Pinback Trans-Migrant Early 1900s Advertising

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Offered here is a very unusual and historically important 1 ¼” cello pinback button advertising the United States Lines and their “Trans-Migrant” program. According to researcher, Drew Keeling at Cal Berkeley, “The migration of Europeans across the early twentieth-century North Atlantic was the greatest transoceanic relocation of all time. It was a human drama, a major international demographic shift, and represented a massive historical experiment in ethnic transformation during a period of unprecedented globalization. This migration was also a far-reaching multinational travel business containing both risks and rewards for its three fundamental participants: the movers, the moved, and the sovereign authorities on either side of the borders being traversed.”
This pin would have been used sometime between 1900-1915 and its design, by the American Artworks Co of Coshocton, Ohio (and as seen in the back paper), looks from that period. AND, I have not seen any other images of the USL in a flag.
If you collect Transportation, Shipping Lines, Political Cause or just historically significant pins, this button will add plenty of luster. It’s in excellent condition. Buyer pays shipping.