Pass for Music Midtown used by Ira Tucker: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An orange, nylon lanyard with a pass for the 1998 Midtown Music Festival, held in Atlanta, attached to it. The pass has an image of a microphone, and in a purple field below, the words "ARTIST / Coca-Cola/V103." The lanyard is an orange, fine-woven ribbon that bears a recurring logo and message "OSUUSPANKKI." Attached to the lanyard is an orange plastic ball.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: May 1, 1998
• Created by: Otto Printing & Entertainment Graphics, American, founded 1964
• Subject of: Ira Tucker Sr., American, 1925 - 2008
• Subject of: Dixie Hummingbirds, American, founded 1928
• Type: passes (tickets)
• Medium: paper, plastic laminate, metal, nylon
• Dimensions: H x W (Purple badge): 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (10.8 x 6.4 cm)
• Dimensions: L x W (lanyard): 21 x 5/16 in. (53.3 x 0.8 cm)
• Place collected: Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Place made: Dayton, Kentucky, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Gospel (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2013.13.19.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Ira Tucker, Jr. of the Dixie Hummingbirds
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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