Employment identification badge of unidentified employee: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An employee identification badge of an unidentified employee from an unidentified company. The metal badge is circular with a pin and clasp on the back. The front of the badge has a black and white photograph of an unidentified female employee. The woman is featured from the neck up and is facing the camera. A height chart is behind her. Two sets of numbers are featured on the badge: [637] is placed above the woman in large black type; [463] is featured below the woman in smaller white type. The number below the woman is most likely her employee identification number and the number above is most likely a factory number. The back of the pin has a makers mark and a patent number.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1940s
• Manufactured by: American Emblem Company, American
• Issued by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Type: badges
• Medium: metal with paper and plastic
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
• Place made: Utica, Oneida County, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2018.20
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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