Pinback button for Harold Washington's Chicago Mayoral campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for Harold Washington's Chicago Mayoral campaign: Date: 1983. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Harold Washington, American, 1922 - 1987.
The object in the museum catalogue
Round pin-back button. Button is predominantly blue, with white type. Type reads, [Harold/Washington/For Chicago]. Vertical radiating white lines extend from above the white type. Small, Allied Printing Trade Union label is underneath in white type.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1983
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Harold Washington, American, 1922 - 1987
- 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)
- Place depicted: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Politics
- Object number: 2013.201.1.46
- 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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