Environmental Button
Environmental Button
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- Description
- Button with a light blue background with dark blue printing. Features the image of a cresting wave and the phrase "STOP OCEAN DUMPING". Rim of the button reads: Donnelly/Colt Buttons
- The world’s oceans have been used by industry and governments for many years as a convenient sink for dumping waste products, including radioactive materials and other hazardous substances. Efforts to curb that practice intensified in the 1970s when international conventions attempted to tightly control or ban it outright.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- button
- maker
- Donnelly/Colt
- Place Made
- United States: Connecticut, Hampton
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.33 cm x 4.3 cm; x 1/8 in x 1 11/16 in
- ID Number
- 2003.0014.1118
- accession number
- 2003.0014
- catalog number
- 2003.0014.1118
- subject
- Environmental Movement
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- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Clothing & Accessories
- Natural Resources
- Environmental Buttons
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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