Metal button tab with the slogan "Use Your Vote": Museum Object and Cultural History
Metal button tab with the slogan "Use Your Vote": Date: 1960s. Manufactured by: Don Howard Associates Inc., American. Distributed by: Bristol Myers Squibb, American, founded 1887.
The object in the museum catalogue
A metal button tab with a white background and text that reads [Use Your Vote / TM] throughout. The word vote is in white lettering against red and orange blocks. The back of the button has a metal tab. On the tab red text reads [don howard assoc. inc. New York N.Y. 10036].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1960s
- Manufactured by: Don Howard Associates Inc., American
- Distributed by: Bristol Myers Squibb, American, founded 1887
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on metal
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 × 2 × 1/4 in. (5.1 × 5.1 × 0.6 cm)
- Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Advertising
- Object number: 2013.68.59
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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