Collection Highlights
Invitation to Erie Canal Celebration
Date:
1825
Object Number:
PR.221.12
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Stop the Cruise Missile
Object Number:
2002.70.58
Date:
1975-1985
Medium:
Plastic, metal
Dimensions:
diameter: 2 3/8 in. ( 6 cm )
Marks:
printed: on back of button: "In our homeland AICHI [illegible] has a Very Long Wave wireless base named YOSAMI. This U.S. military base orders to nuclear submarine in Pacific & Indian oceans. Stop the nuclear wars & the armsrace! Remove YOSAMI base! AIC
Description:
Circular pin-back button: "STOP THE/CRUISE MISSILE"; Japanese characters are printed across the top and bottom. In the center is a map of Japan surmounted by a missile inscribed "USA"; to the right is a submarine partially submerged; yellow, blue and black.
Gallery Label:
This button is part of a protest against the manufacture and use of nuclear weapons in Japan.
Credit Line:
Gift of Beatrice J. Siegel
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
