Pinback button featuring Nelson Mandela: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Round pin-back button featuring a black and white photograph of Nelson Mandela. Surrounding the photograph on three sides is yellow and green type. Yellow and green type reads, [NELSON / MANDELA / THE STRUGGLE IS MY LIFE]. White type along bottom edge, [DONNELLY COLT CUSTOMPRINTING, BOX 188 HAMPTON, CT. 06247 203-455-9621].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1975
• Manufactured by: Donnelly/Colt Progressive Resources, American, founded 1975
• Subject of: Nelson Mandela, South African, 1918 - 2013
• Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2 1/4 × 3/8 in. (5.7 × 1 cm)
• Cultural Place: South Africa, Africa
• Place made: Hampton, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Prisons
• Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
• Object number: 2013.201.1.32
• 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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