button, The President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Benhaven
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pin-back buttons serve many purposes. They are efficient advertising vehicles, handy for fund-raising in support of a cause, concise statements of a person’s beliefs, a form of educational outreach, and convenient ice-breakers for conversation. NMAH has several hundred pin-back buttons related to disability, including this one from the President’s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. The President’s Committee is a federal agency established in the 1940s to encourage hiring of disabled veterans. In 1989, the committee was renamed the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund through Pat Wright
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.3055.14
label: nonaccession number
content: 2004.3055
label: catalog number
content: 2004.3055.14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: disability awareness
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 4.445 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; .635 cm x 4.445 cm