Button, Advertising, Federal Express (FedEx)
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Object Details
- Description
- This circular button has a purple background with white text that reads: "DON'T PANIC! FEDERAL EXPRESS."
- 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
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- David DeJean
- ID Number
- 2009.3071.630
- catalog number
- 2009.3071.630
- nonaccession number
- 2009.3071
- Object Name
- button, advertising
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; x .635 cm x 5.715 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Advertising
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1387703
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-199a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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