Thumbs Up for China!
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a button made by United China Relief. At the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, there came a flood of refugees and sick, wounded, and destitute persons to the U.S. The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, the Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, the China Emergency Relief Committee, the Church Committee for China Relief, and the China Aid Council joined together to create United China Relief in 1941 in New York City to aid these people.
label: Description
content: United China Relief’s primary function was to provide funds for relief and rehabilitation of Chinese people. Its secondary goals were to serve as a medium for informing Americans on events and conditions in China and to help reassure the Chinese people of continued American concern and friendship.
label: Description
content: In 1947, the organization’s name changed to United Service to China. In 1966, it was officially consolidated with the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Asian Pacific Americans
label: Subject
content: Asian Americans
label: Subject
content: Chinese Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0268.05
label: accession number
content: 2019.0268
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0268.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Type
content: Political Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.58 cm x 2.04 cm x .4 cm; 1 1/32 in x 13/16 in x 5/32 in