United States Postal Service Identification Badge
date: label: date made
content: 2015 - 2020
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) United States Postal Service (USPS) Identification Badge
label: Description (Brief)
content: White badge with USPS blue and white eagle logo. "United States Postal Service" "Jose M. Gonzalez" "Expires 7/31/2021" "Northern New Jersey" "E"
label: Description (Brief)
content: This badge belonged to Jose Manuel Gonzalez (9/22/1961-5/2/2020) a resident of Bogata, New Jersey. Mr. Gonzalez, Afro-Cuban-American, was a federal worker employed as a truck driver by the USPS in Teterboro New Jersey for 20 years. He became ill in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was hospitalized (Hackensack University Medical Center) on April 3rd and passed away there on May 2nd, 2020. He was one of five children raised by his parents, an AfroCuban couple who married in Fomento, Cuba and came to West New York in 1955.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: associated subject
content: 2019 novel coronavirus disease
label: associated subject
content: Infectious diseases
label: associated subject
content: Public Health
label: associated subject
content: COVID-19 (Disease)
label: associated subject
content: 2019-nCoV disease
label: associated subject
content: Disease prevention
label: related event
content: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Occupations
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0261.7
label: accession number
content: 2022.0261
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0261.7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
label: Object Name
content: badge, indentification
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 1/2 in x 2 19/32 in; 62.23 cm x 6.604 cm