button, L & M stand for lung cancer and misery
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: maker
content: Bates Buttons
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. This one vividly connects lung cancer to misery.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Cancer
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
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content: Cancer
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content: Cancer: Advocacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0146.17
label: accession number
content: 2006.0146
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0146.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, anti-smoking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in; .9525 cm x 3.81 cm