Object Details
- Description
- As an expression of their opposition to commercial whaling in the 1970s, established environmental organizations like the National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, and World Wildlife Fund embraced the “Save the Whales” slogan, such as used in this pin.
- The button is among the more than 1,500 pin-backed environmental buttons that Gerald H. Meral donated to the National Museum of American History. Meral spent his career addressing natural resource concerns for the California state government and California-based non-governmental organizations. He began assembling his button collection in 1970.
- ID Number
- 2003.0014.1041
- catalog number
- 2003.0014.1041
- accession number
- 2003.0014
- Object Name
- lapel pin
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 cm x 3.9 cm x .6 cm; 1 3/16 in x 1 17/32 in x 1/4 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Health & Medicine
- American Enterprise
- Environmental Buttons
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Environmental Movement
- Record ID
- nmah_1284553
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-a629-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
