wallet
date: label: date made
content: 1998
name: label: Associated Name
content: Shepard, Matthew
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Matthew Shepard was a college student, targeted for being gay, robbed, and brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998. This wallet was sent to him during the few days that he was hospitalized, in a coma before he died. The killers took Matthew's wallet. The wallet and a Get Well Soon card (2019.0004.27.02) were sent by Larry Whiteley, Wilton Manors, FL.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dennis and Judy Shepard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0004.27.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0004
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0004.27.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wallet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic; metal (wallet material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 3 1/2 in x 5 in x 7/8 in; 8.89 cm x 12.7 cm x 2.2225 cm
label: Measurements
content: wallet: 3 1/4 in x 4 1/8 in x 5/8 in; 8.255 cm x 10.4775 cm x 1.5875 cm