Yard sign endorsing Wellington Webb for Mayor of Denver: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A lawn sign endorsing Wellington Webb for Mayor of Denver. The sign is made of corrugated plastic and is in the shape of a shoe printed with blue over white. The shoe depicted is a PR shoe with its laces tied, reading [WW ' 95] in blue text along the side. Information about the commissioning body and a printers mark are printed in blue along the toe of the shoe. The back of the sign has residue of adhesive vertically along the center.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1995
• Printed by: Powell Brothers Color Graphix LLC, American
• Commissioned by: Webb for Mayor, Inc., American, founded 1991
• Subject of: Wellington E. Webb, born 1941
• Type: signs
• Medium: plastic, vinyl
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 12 x 24 3/4 x 3/16 in. (30.5 x 62.9 x 0.5 cm)
• Place made: Denver, Colorado, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Urban life
• Object number: 2014.46.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Honorable Wellington E. Webb and Wilma J. Webb
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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