Pinback Button, "Dukakis Bentsen"
Object Details
- Medium
- metal, plastic, paper
- Dimensions
- 3/16 × 1 7/16 in. (0.4 × 3.6 cm)
- Cite As
- Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Vernice D. Miller-Travis
- Caption
- This round pinback button promoted the Dukakis-Bentsen presidential ticket. The pin features blue lettering on a red, white, and blue background showing a portion of a waving American flag. Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen run as the Democratic Party nominees in the 1988 presidential election.
- The button is among more than 200 collected by Washington, DC-based environmental justice advocate Vernice Miller-Travis.
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- Accession Number
- 2022.13.41
- Type
- pinback button
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_2022.13.41