"Save the Whale" Pin
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Environmental Buttons
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.1041
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.1041
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lapel pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 cm x 3.9 cm x .6 cm; 1 3/16 in x 1 17/32 in x 1/4 in