The Joffrey Ballet 25th Anniversary: Museum Object and Cultural History
The Joffrey Ballet 25th Anniversary: date made: 1981. Object Name: Button. Object Name: pin.
The object in the museum catalogue
Button commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Joffrey Ballet. Chicago's Joffrey Ballet was founded in 1956 by dancers Robert Joffrey (born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan) and Gerald Arpino.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1981
- Object Name: Button
- Object Name: pin
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: average spatial: 1 1/4 in; x 3.175 cm
- Associated Place: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Subject: Dance
- Subject: ballet
- web subject: Entertainment
- ID Number: 1992.0415.17
- catalog number: 1992.0415.17
- accession number: 1992.0415
- Credit Line: Sule Gregory C. Wilson
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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