Button, Advertising, ViewSonic
date: label: date made
content: c 1992
notes: label: Description
content: This circular button has a bright blue background which fades to pale blue at the bottom. The red text reads: "ViewSonic BOOTH #652E." Above the text is the company logo, three colorful birds sitting on green branch. A mark in green ink on the reverse reads: "CDX 4/92."
label: Description
content: ViewSonic Corp.is a provider of visual display products. Corporate headquarters are in Brea, California. The company was founded in 1987 by James Chu as Keypoint Technology Corporation; it specialized in computer peripherals. In 1990 they introduced the ViewSonic brand of color monitors and shortly thereafter Chu refocused the company to concentrate on computer visual display products. The company was renamed ViewSonic and the three colorful birds (Gouldian finches) were chosen as the company symbol.
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content: Reference:
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content: https://www.viewsonic.com/us/about-us
label: Description
content: [Last accessed 6/16/2019]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Advertising
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: David DeJean
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.3071.617
label: catalog number
content: 2009.3071.617
label: nonaccession number
content: 2009.3071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, advertising
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/16 in x 3 1/2 in; x .508 cm x 8.89 cm