Pinback button for Clinton - Gore 1996 presidential campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for Clinton - Gore 1996 presidential campaign: Date: 1996. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: President Bill Clinton, American, born 1946.
The object in the museum catalogue
Round pin-back button. The top two-thirds is blue and features black and white headshots of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. White text centered above the images reads [RE-ELECT]. A line of five (5) stars extends from either end of the text to the edge of the blue background. The bottom third is red with white text that reads [1996 / CLINTON & GORE]. White text along the bottom lip reads [N.G. SLATER CORP. NYC 10011]. The text is followed by a small, white trades union logo.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1996
- Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
- Subject of: President Bill Clinton, American, born 1946
- Subject of: Al Gore, American, born 1948
- Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal, plastic, paper
- Dimensions: Diameter: 2 3/16 × 5/16 in. (5.6 × 0.8 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Politics
- Object number: 2013.201.1.12
- 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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