Washington Redskins
date: label: date made
content: after 1936
name: label: Associated Name
content: Washington Redskins
notes: label: Description
content: Pinback button for the <i>Washington Redskins </i> professional football team. The National Football League (NFL) franchise started in Boston, MA in 1932 as the <i>Braves</i> renaming themselves the <i>Redskins</i> the following year.
label: Description
content: The team moved to Washington D.C. in 1937. The franchise was long critcized for its name, a derogatory term for America's native peoples. In 2020 the team become known simply as <i>The Washington Football Team </i> before adopting the name <i>Washington Commanders </i> in 2022.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Football
label: level of sport
content: Professional
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Edith R. Meggers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.314637.00301
label: accession number
content: 314637
label: catalog number
content: 314637.00301
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
label: Object Name
content: button, football
label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1 1/4 in; x 3.175 cm