Button, Advertising, Federal Express (FedEx)

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Description:

This circular button has an orange-red background with white text that reads: "DON'T PANIC! FEDERAL EXPRESS." A mark in black ink on the reverse reads: "Comdex 6/90."

Federal Express, now known as FedEx, is a package delivery company that was founded in 1973. On their first day, the 389 employees and 14 planes delivered 186 packages to 25 east coast US cities. Today, they have over 650 aircraft, thousands of trucks, 300,000 employees, and they deliver 3.6 million packages daily to more than 220 countries and territories.

References: [Last accessed 2019-07-24]

https://about.van.fedex.com/our-story/history-timeline/history/

http://www.fedex.com/cv/about/company-info/40th-anniversary.html

Date Made: c 1990

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Computers, Advertising, Computers & Business Machines

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Exhibition Location:

Credit Line: David DeJean

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2009.3071.631Catalog Number: 2009.3071.631Nonaccession Number: 2009.3071

Object Name: button, advertising

Physical Description: plastic (overall material)metal (overall material)Measurements: overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; x .635 cm x 5.715 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-199b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1387704

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