AIDS Memorial Quilt button

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Titles AIDS Memorial Quilt button
Description This square diamond-shaped button commemorates the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was on a national tour and displayed at Minneapolis Metrodome in 1992. The Quilt project was founded in 1987 as an awareness-raising community arts project commemorating the lives of those who had died of AIDS. The button reads: "THE QUILT. SEE IT AND UNDERSTAND." The button was made in Boston, Massachusetts.
Quantity 1 item
Format Content Category: artifacts
Measurements 5.3 centimeters length
2.4 centimeters width
Nomenclature button (information artifact)
Materials metal
Creation Made by: ASAP Advertising
Made in: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Subjects Used in: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender
AIDS Quilt Display
Badges, Buttons & Medals. Government. Political Movements & Causes
Dates Creation: 1992
Holding Type 3D Objects
Identifiers 1998.45.15 (Accession Number)

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