Pinback button for the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement: Date: 1970-1977. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, American, 1970 - 1977.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pinback button for the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement. The top have of the button has a black background and the bottom half of the button has a green background. Pink lettering throughout the button reads [No Bullshit / Boycott Polaroid]. The back of the button has a metal pin without a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1970-1977
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, American, 1970 - 1977
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 1/4 in. (4.4 × 4.4 × 0.6 cm)
- Cultural Place: South Africa, Africa
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Africa
- Topic: Business
- Topic: International affairs
- Topic: Political organizations
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Resistance
- Object number: 2013.68.82
- 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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