Object Details
- unknown
- Description (Brief)
- Pin-back buttons serve many purposes. They are efficient advertising vehicles, handy for fund-raising in support of a cause, concise statements of a person’s beliefs, a form of educational outreach, and convenient ice-breakers for conversation. NMAH has several hundred pin-back buttons related to disability, including this one. Before the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provided the core of legal protection for most people with disabilities. The caricature is of President Ronald Reagan. He threatened to rescind 504 and other disability-related regulations.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Carr Massi
- 1982-1983
- ID Number
- 1999.0263.19
- catalog number
- 1999.0263.19
- accession number
- 1999.0263
- Object Name
- button
- disability awareness
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in; .9525 cm x 6.35 cm
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 5/16 in; 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm x .79375 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Disabilities
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Disabilities
- Record ID
- nmah_473305
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-aedd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
