Pinback button for Harold Washington mayoral campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for Harold Washington mayoral campaign: Date: 1980s. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Harold Washington, American, 1922 - 1987.
The object in the museum catalogue
Blue button with white text at center that reads "HAROLD WASHINGTON FOR CHICAGO." There are white lines radiating up from the word "Washington." At the bottom of the button is a white logo for the IUAN and PW union.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1980s
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Harold Washington, American, 1922 - 1987
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: Diameter: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
- Place used: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Politics
- Object number: 2011.159.3.77
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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