Pinback button featuring a campaign portrait of Senator William B. Nash: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A metal pin back button featuring a photographic image of Sen. W.B. Nash. The pin is oval and made of metal with a slight tarnish. The front features a beaded design around the edge of the picture and the back is slightly indented with a horizontal pin across the middle. The photo is placed loosely in the frame and features a bust shot of Nash wearing a suit jacket and tie. He has a beard and mustache.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1868
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Sen. William Beverly Nash, American, 1822 - 1888
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal, silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 3/4 × 1 1/2 × 3/8 in. (4.4 × 3.8 × 1 cm)
• Place used: Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Emancipation
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
• Topic: Slavery
• Object number: 2013.168.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Family of William Beverly Nash
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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