Pinback button for the Queens Walk for Development: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the Queens Walk for Development: Date: April 30, 1972. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Type: money.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pinback button for the Queens Walk For Development. The button has a white background with black text around the outer edge that reads [Queens Walk For Development / April 30, 1972]. At center there is a black circle with a white interior circle and white upside down triangle. The exterior edge of the button has the manufacturer's information printed in black ink. The back of the button has a metal pin without a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: April 30, 1972
- Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
- Type: money
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 3/8 × 1 1/4 × 5/16 in. (3.5 × 3.2 × 0.8 cm)
- Place depicted: New York City, Queens County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Commerce
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Urban planning
- Object number: 2013.68.54
- 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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