- On View
- Making a Way Gallery
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- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- Manufactured by
- Columbia Advertising Company, American
- Subject of
- Chisholm, Shirley Anita, American, 1924 - 2005
- Date
- ca. 1972
- Medium
- metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 1 7/8 × 1 3/4 × 3/16 in. (4.8 × 4.4 × 0.5 cm)
- Description
- A circular metal pin-back button. The button has a white background with blue and red type that reads: [CATALYST FOR CHANGE] around the top in red, and [SHIRLEY / CHISHOLM / FOR / PRESIDENT] in blue, centered below. The edge of the pin reads in blue text: [Columbia Advertising Company 133-14 101 Richmond Hill, NY 11419]. Next to the text is a logo in blue print followed by the number [9]. The back of the button is silver in color, has a single pin without a clasp and an engraving. The engraving has a circular symbol with the word Union on one side.
- Place made
- Richmond Hill, New York City, Queens, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2014.76.9
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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