Object Details
- Description
- Gay-rights activist Cleve Jones began the AIDS Memorial Quilt with a group of friends in San Francisco in 1987. They conceived The Names Project as a way to remember and honor people who had died from AIDS. This pin-back dates from the 1989 unfolding of the Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- unknown
- date made
- 1989
- Credit Line
- gift of Janine Kemp Bertram
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 5.3975 cm
- overall: 1/4 in x 2 in x 2 in; .635 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm
- Object Name
- pin
- button, memorial, aids
