National Negro Business League pin: Museum Object and Cultural History
National Negro Business League pin: Date: ca. 1908. Created by: G. Addison Turner, American. Subject of: Booker T. Washington, American, 1856 - 1915.
The object in the museum catalogue
A badge with a blue ribbon and portrait attached to a metal clasp. The front of the badge has a portrait of Booker T. Washington, while the back side of the badge has a drawing of a beehive and the title “National Negro Business League.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1908
- Created by: G. Addison Turner, American
- Subject of: Booker T. Washington, American, 1856 - 1915
- Subject of: National Negro Business League, American, 1901 - 1966
- Type: badges
- Medium: celluloid, ribbon and metal
- Dimensions: H x W: 3 3/4 x 2 x 1/8 in. (9.5 x 5.1 x 0.3 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Black Enterprise
- Topic: Business
- Object number: 2008.5.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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