button, L & M stand for lung cancer and misery
button, L & M stand for lung cancer and misery
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- Description (Brief)
- Pin-back buttons serve many purposes. They are efficient advertising vehicles, handy for fund-raising in support of a cause, concise statements of a person’s beliefs, a form of educational outreach, and convenient ice-breakers for conversation. This one vividly connects lung cancer to misery.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- button, anti-smoking
- Date made
- ca 1980
- maker
- Bates Buttons
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm x 1.5875 cm
- overall: 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in;.9525 cm x 3.81 cm
- ID Number
- 2006.0146.17
- accession number
- 2006.0146
- catalog number
- 2006.0146.17
- subject
- Disabilities
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Disabilities
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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