Event badge from the 2008 Obama campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Holographic badge featuring a side portait of Barack Obama in front of an American flag; barcode at bottom. [CHANGE/WE CAN BELIEVE IN/BARACK OBAMA/DEMOCRATIC/PRESIDENTIAL/CANDIDATE/THURSDAY/AUGUST 28th, 2008/GATES OPEN AT 1:00 P.M./INVESCO FIELD/AT MILE HIGH/DENVER, COLORADO/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE/HOWARD DEAN, CHAIRMAN/COMMUNITY CREDENTIAL/SECTION 124U, SEAT 308/LOWER EAST] Handwritten contact information for R Jefferson Smith on back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2008
• Created by: Democratic National Committee, American, founded 1848
• Subject of: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961
• Type: badges
• Medium: ink and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W: 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2012.91.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of M. Denise Dennis
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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