Environmental Button
Environmental Button
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- Description
- The slogan on this button refers to a campaign by the environmental group the Sierra Club to promote and preserve the wilderness areas of Utah. It dates from the early 1990s. Wilderness protection was a touchstone issue among some environmental groups, and is still relevant despite the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- button
- Date made
- early 1990s
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/16 in x 2 1/4 in;.47625 cm x 5.715 cm
- ID Number
- 1999.0248.26
- catalog number
- 1999.0248.26
- accession number
- 1999.0248
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. Michael McCloskey
- 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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