T-shirt with "Come To Your Census" from Fair Count: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A purple cotton “Come To Your Census” t-shirt by Royal Apparel.

This t-shirt features white ink press on the front, proper left sleeve, and reverse of the t-shirt. On the front of the t-shirt is the depiction of a large light bulb with the outline of a house and three people inside it. There are seven short straight streaks to represent brightness outside of the lightbulb, and below it “COME TO YOUR / CENSUS!” On the proper left sleeve is printed “2020 / CENSUS”. On the reverse of the t-shirt is the Fair Count three people inside a house logo.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 2017-2019
• Created by: Fair Count, Inc., American, founded 2019
• Manufactured by: Royal Apparel, American, founded 1990
• Subject of: Stacey Y. Abrams, American, born 1973
• Type: T-shirts
• Medium: ink on cotton (textile)
• Dimensions: L x W: 29 3/4 × 22 11/16 in. (75.5 × 57.6 cm)
• Place collected: Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Clothing and dress
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Fashion
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Suffrage
• Object number: 2021.7.10
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Courtesy of Stacey Y. Abrams
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Fair Count, Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.