The People’s Inauguration Project program: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Program for The People's Inaugural Project. The front cover has an image of the U.S. Capitol with five red stripes extending out from the Capitol dome. Each stripe has a series of white stars down its center. Blue type at the top of the page reads: [THE PEOPLE'S / INAUGURAL PROJECT]. The back of the program has a quote from the Bible and the logos of the sponsors of the event.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: January 19-20, 2009
• Created by: The Stafford Foundation, American, founded 2002
• Subject of: People's Inaugural Project, American, 2009 - 2009
• Subject of: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper, metal
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 1/16 in. (21.6 × 14 × 0.2 cm)
• Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Humanitarianism
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2012.142.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Stafford Foundation
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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