Pinback button for the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pinback button for the Afro-American Historical And Cultural Museum. The button has a white background with brow accents. Text on the outer edge of the button reads [Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum / 7th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia, PA]. At center is a depiction of an African sculpture. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1976
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: African American Museum in Philadelphia, American, founded 1976
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/4 × 2 1/4 × 1/4 in. (5.7 × 5.7 × 0.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: African diaspora
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: Museums
• Topic: Urban life
• Object number: 2013.68.89
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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