Channel 2 Auction tote bag
notes: label: Description
content: This tote bag comes from fundraising auctions for the Boston-area public broadcast company, WGBH. The company’s television channel is Channel 2. Auctions are one part of the company’s fundraising strategy.
label: Description
content: WGBH was among the companies that introduced the practice of giving premiums, or thank you gifts, to supporters of public radio and public television. Familiar with the university fundraising operations’ use of premiums, WGBH began offering such gifts to supporters in the 1970s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard
label: Associated Place
content: China
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content: Work and Industry: Philanthropy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Steven Wasserman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0286.01
label: accession number
content: 2018.0286
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0286.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tote
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (flat, without handles): 38.5 cm x 52 cm; 15 5/32 in x 20 15/32 in