29th NAACP Image Awards Badge: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This access badge was from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Image Awards Show, in 1998. It is made of green paper with black ink, laminated in clear plastic, with a metal bead chain. The badge is printed:

This access badge was from the 29th NAACP Image Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, in Pasadena, California, on February 14, 1998.

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: 1998
• user: Levy, John
• Object Name: badge
• Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: metal (overall material)
• Physical Description: green (image color)
• Physical Description: black (image color)
• Measurements: overall: 18 in x 2 1/2 in; 45.72 cm x 6.35 cm
• place made: United States: California, Pasadena
• Subject: Music
• ID Number: 2011.3087.39
• nonaccession number: 2011.3087
• catalog number: 2011.3087.39
• Credit Line: Gift of Devra Hall Levy
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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