button, We Are Watching
date: label: date made
content: 1982-1983
name: label: maker
content: unknown
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. Before the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provided the core of legal protection for most people with disabilities. The caricature is of President Ronald Reagan. He threatened to rescind 504 and other disability-related regulations.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
label: See more items in
content: Disabilities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carr Massi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0263.19
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0263.19
label: accession number
content: 1999.0263
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: disability awareness
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in; .9525 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 5/16 in; 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm x .79375 cm