2000 Countdown Baseball Cap
date: label: Date made
content: 1999
name: label: maker
content: Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
notes: label: Description
content: The Y2K project directors at Guardian Life Insurance in lower Manhattan used objects such as baseball caps and model trains to promote competition between the divisions and to keep team spirits up as the work moved forward. A model train was displayed in the company lobby, and as a division became Y2K compliant, a car with the division’s name on it was added to the train.
label: Description
content: The Y2K project directors wore this baseball cap to team meetings when they felt the team was losing focus. The cap is embroidered with "Count Down 2000" and has a digital readout that counted down to the year 2000.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Y2K
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Y2K
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.3020.03
label: catalog number
content: 2004.3020.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2004.3020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Baseball Cap
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 21 cm x 25 cm; 4 23/32 in x 8 9/32 in x 9 27/32 in