Pinback button featuring Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A round pinback button featuring a black-and-white photographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the proper left and a black-and-white photographic portrait of Frederick Douglass on the proper right. The portraits are in the center against a cream background. A gold colored border surrounds the outside edge of the button with bands of blue with white stars at the top and bottom center and bands of white with red stripes at the right and left center.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1960s
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: President Abraham Lincoln, American, 1809 - 1865
• Subject of: Frederick Douglass, American, 1818 - 1895
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W: 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (4.4 x 4.4 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
• Object number: 2010.77.2
• 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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