Object Details
- Description
- This pin was made in Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Crafts like this pin served to create or reinforce connections and relationships between people imprisoned at the camps. On the back of this pin, featuring two lovebirds perched on a heart, are the initials "HGK/45". Perhaps in 1945, someone gave this pin to their sweetheart as a token of love and affection.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mabel Rose Vogel
- 1943-1945
- ID Number
- 1986.3144.19
- catalog number
- 1986.3144.19
- nonaccession number
- 1986.3144
- Object Name
- pin
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- glue (overall material)
- safety pin (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 1 15/16 in; 4.445 cm x 4.92125 cm
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
- Cultures & Communities
- Art
- Japanese American Internment Era
- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Title
- Love birds and hearts pin
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Japanese Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_1295397
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-bcd8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
