button, Autistic and Proud Autism Network International
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Badge-A-Minit
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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 about autism, a neurological condition. It was created by Autism Network International. In the mid 1990s, ANI was composed of a small core of members who drove hundreds of miles roundtrip, taking every opportunity to be together. When they discovered that several of them shared an interest in llamas, the animals began to appear on buttons, T-Shirts, and as the topic of lively discussions.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joseph P. Shapiro
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0210.05
label: accession number
content: 2010.0210
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0210.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: disability awareness
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 5.715 cm x 6.0325 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/16 in x 2 5/16 in x 5/16 in x 2 5/16 in; 5.87375 cm x 5.87375 cm x .79375 cm x 5.87375 cm