Object Details
maker
Donnelly/Colt
Description
Button with a light blue background with dark blue printing. Features the image of a cresting wave and the phrase "STOP OCEAN DUMPING". Rim of the button reads: Donnelly/Colt Buttons
The world’s oceans have been used by industry and governments for many years as a convenient sink for dumping waste products, including radioactive materials and other hazardous substances. Efforts to curb that practice intensified in the 1970s when international conventions attempted to tightly control or ban it outright.
Location
Currently not on view
ID Number
2003.0014.1118
accession number
2003.0014
catalog number
2003.0014.1118
Object Name
button
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
Measurements
overall: .33 cm x 4.3 cm; x 1/8 in x 1 11/16 in
Place Made
United States: Connecticut, Hampton
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Environmental Movement
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1284630