Environmental Button
name: label: maker
content: Donnelly/Colt
notes: label: Description
content: Button with a light blue background with dark blue printing. Features the image of a cresting wave and the phrase "STOP OCEAN DUMPING". Rim of the button reads: Donnelly/Colt Buttons
label: Description
content: The world’s oceans have been used by industry and governments for many years as a convenient sink for dumping waste products, including radioactive materials and other hazardous substances. Efforts to curb that practice intensified in the 1970s when international conventions attempted to tightly control or ban it outright.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hampton
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Environmental Buttons
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.1118
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.1118
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .33 cm x 4.3 cm; x 1/8 in x 1 11/16 in