Member pin for the Mississippi Association of Teachers in Colored Schools: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Member pin for the Mississippi Association of Teachers in Colored Schools. This is a composite object with a white button pin and an attached ribbon. The blue text on the white button pin reads [MISSISSIPPI / ASS’N / TEACHERS / COLORED / SCHOOLS/ MEMBER]. The silver text on the navy blue ribbon and the loose ribbon fragment reads [?]REENWOO] [D] / 1929. On the back of the button there is black printed text within an ellipse shape seal that reads [ST. LOUIS BUTTON CO. / MANUFACTURERS / LOCAL NO. 5 / AMALGAMATED / UNION LITHOGRAPHERS LABEL/ OF AMERICA / ST. LOUIS / ST. LOUIS, MO.].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1929
• Issued by: Mississippi Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, American, founded 1906
• Manufactured by: St. Louis Button Company Manufacturers, American
• Owned by: Rhonda Daniel Lowery, American, born 1901
• Type: buttons (fasteners)
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal and plastic with synthetic fiber
• Dimensions: H x W x D (Intact Object): 3 1/4 × 15/16 × 1/8 in. (8.3 × 2.4 × 0.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Detached Fragment): 9/16 × 15/16 in. (1.5 × 2.4 cm)
• Place used: Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Professional organizations
• Object number: 2014.177.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gwen Lymon in loving memory of Rhoda Daniel Lowery
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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