Pinback button endorsing Shirley Chisholm for President: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button endorsing Shirley Chisholm for President: Date: 1972. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: Shirley Anita Chisholm, American, 1924 - 2005.
The object in the museum catalogue
A white pinback button endorsing Shirley Chisholm for president. The button features three lines of text in black block letters [MS. CHIS. / FOR / PRES.]. The back of the button is rusted and has a straight pin extending beyond the diameter of the button. A printer's mark in black ink is partly legible on the bottom edge of the button.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1972
- Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
- Subject of: Shirley Anita Chisholm, American, 1924 - 2005
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper (fiber product), metal, plastic laminate
- Dimensions: 1 1/2 x 1/4 in. (3.8 x 0.6 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Object number: 2014.36.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Anonymous Gift
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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