Urban Ecology Button
Object Details
- Description
- Ecology is a branch of science dealing with the relationships of organisms within an environment. Urban ecology is the study of how organisms coexist in a hard-landscape urban area. This button showing a dead bird in the city is a satirical example of how ecosystems cannot coexist without a balanced relationship.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1970s
- ID Number
- 1996.0130.35
- catalog number
- 1996.0130.35
- accession number
- 1996.0130
- Object Name
- button
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- round (overall shape)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1 3/4 in; 4.445 cm
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Reform Movements Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Environmental History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Environment
- used
- Environmental Movement
- Subject
- Environmental History
- Record ID
- nmah_1179116
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-3725-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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