Pinback button for the Brownsville Community Council: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the Brownsville Community Council: Date: 1967. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Type: money.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pinback button for the Brownsville Community Federal Credit Union and Community Council in Brooklyn, New York. The button has a red outer edge and green center. Black text around the edge reads [Brownsville Community Federal Credit Union]. At center there is a yellow triangle with black text in each line that reads [Brownsville Community Council]. The back of the button has a metal pin without a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1967
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Type: money
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/2 × 1 3/4 × 5/16 in. (3.8 × 4.4 × 0.8 cm)
- Place depicted: Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings County, New York, United States
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Commerce
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Poverty
- Topic: Resistance
- Topic: Social reform
- Topic: Urban life
- Object number: 2013.68.128
- 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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