Pinback button for the NYC Local 1549 Union: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the NYC Local 1549 Union: Date: 1950-2000. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Local 1549, Distric Council 37, NYC Clerical Administrative Employees, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A green pinback button with black and white text. Black text at the top reads [nyc clerical / administrative]. At center, white and black, text reads [local / 1549 / District Council 37]. Black text at the bottom reads [afscme AFL/CIO]. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1950-2000
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Local 1549, Distric Council 37, NYC Clerical Administrative Employees, American
- Subject of: AFL-CIO, American, founded 1955
- Subject of: American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees New York, American, founded 1944
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 3/16 in. (3.8 × 3.8 × 0.5 cm)
- Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Urban life
- Object number: 2013.68.36
- 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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