Environmental Button
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Object Details
- Racomex Products
- Description
- This button depicts the ecology symbol, a small letter “e” inside the larger letter “O,” the letters standing for “environment” and “organism.” Cartoonist Ron Cobb invented the symbol in 1969. The ecology symbol appeared in a green U.S. flag for the first time in the April 21, 1970 issue of Look magazine.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Horn Badge Company
- ID Number
- 1993.3186.01
- catalog number
- 1993.3186.01
- nonaccession number
- 1993.3186
- Object Name
- button
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4.3 cm x 1.2 cm; 1 11/16 in x 1/2 in
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- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Clothing & Accessories
- Natural Resources
- Environmental Buttons
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Environmental Movement
- Record ID
- nmah_333284
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-3534-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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