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Pinback button featuring Willie Simms
- Manufactured by
- Whitehead & Hoag Company, American, 1892 - 1965
- Subject of
- Simms, Willie, American, 1870 - 1927
- Date
- ca. 1895
- Medium
- ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
- Description
- A circular pinback button with an image of American jockey Willie Simms. The button has a white background with black type above the image of Simms that reads: [SIMS, (sic) CELEBRATED AMERICAN JOCKEY.]. The center of the pin features the image of Simms wearing a white shirt with a blue stripe and white hat. The back of the pin has a label for The Whitehead & Hoag Company that has black type that reads: [THE / WHITEHEAD &HOAG CO. / NEWARK, N.J. / PATENTED / JULY 17, 1894. / April 14, 1896.] and a metal fastener.
- Place made
- Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.
- Object number
- 2011.159.3.66
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
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Digital image of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
- Photograph by
- Iooss, Walter Jr., American, born 1943
- Subject of
- Carter, Rubin "Hurricane", American, 1937 - 2014
- Date
- 1963
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 3084 pixels × 3839 pixels
- Description
- A digital image of a black and white print of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Carter is featured shirtless, in a close-up portrait. He looks straight at the camera and leans on his folded arms.
- 20.343 MB
- Place depicted
- Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- portraits
- digital images
- digital media - born analog
- Topic
- Athletes
- Boxing
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Walter Iooss
- Object number
- 2018.45.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Walter Iooss Jr.