"Stop Ocean Dumping" Button
notes: label: Description
content: Out of sight, out of mind. That attitude proved a difficult hurdle for raising concern about the use of the ocean as a dumping ground for humanity’s escalating wastes. To inspire appreciation and respect for the marine environment, this late-20th-century button incorporates an image of the famed Japanese woodblock print, “The Great Wave.”
label: Description
content: The button is among the more than 1,500 pin-backed environmental buttons that Gerald H. Meral donated to the National Museum of American History. Meral spent his career addressing natural resource concerns for the California state government and California-based non-governmental organizations. He began assembling his button collection in 1970.
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
label: See more items in
content: Government, Politics, and Reform
label: See more items in
content: Health & Medicine
label: See more items in
content: American Enterprise
label: See more items in
content: Environmental Buttons
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.1117
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.1117
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .33 cm x 4.3 cm; 1/8 in x 1 11/16 in