Pinback button for the New York Black Yankees: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the New York Black Yankees: Date: 1932 - 1948. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: New York Black Yankees, American, 1932 - 1948.
The object in the museum catalogue
Black Yankee Baseball Stars button with metal pin back. The front of the button is designed to look like a baseball with a white background and blue seams. Red text at the center reads "BLACK YANKEE BASEBALL STARS."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1932 - 1948
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: New York Black Yankees, American, 1932 - 1948
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: Ink, metal and plastic
- Dimensions: Diameter: 1 11/16 x 1/4 in. (4.3 x 0.7 cm)
- Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Baseball
- Topic: Segregation
- Topic: Sports
- Object number: 2013.171.6
- 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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