Walmart ID Badge
notes: label: Description
content: This Walmart ID badge was worn by employee Valeda Snyder during the 2000s. The badge celebrates Snyder’s 40 years of service. Valeda Snyder began her Walmart career at the Walmart Store 14 in Lebanon, Missouri in 1960. In 2010 she became the first employee to work for Walmart for over 50 years and was part of a national advertising campaign celebrating her 50 years of service. Objects related to Walmart were collected for the American Enterprise exhibit to highlight how America’s largest retailer expanded to sell groceries, including organic offerings, amounting to 25% of all grocery sales in the United States by 2006.
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0111.03
label: accession number
content: 2014.0111
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0111.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 in; 60.96 cm x 8.89 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: badge: 2 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 3125 in; 5.715 cm x 8.89 cm x 7937.5 cm