toy bus; bus figurine: Museum Object and Cultural History
toy bus; bus figurine: Object Name: toy bus. Object Name: bus figurine. Physical Description: metal (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This toy bus belonged to LGBTQ activist Bil Browning. As a child (1977-1987), Browning was picked on by his classmates and played with this small school bus as a therapeutic coping mechanism. He used this toy bus to reenact scenes from his rides to school in rural Indiana, imagining that the bullies were “eaten” by the bus.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: toy bus
- Object Name: bus figurine
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 5 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in x 2 in; 13.97 cm x 4.445 cm x 5.08 cm
- Subject: LGBTQ Rights
- Subject: LGBTQ
- Subject: Gay Rights
- ID Number: 2016.0234.40
- accession number: 2016.0234
- catalog number: 2016.0234.40
- Credit Line: Gift of Bil Browning and Jerame Davis
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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