Pin, “Give a Dam”

1.2 cm 1.4 cm 0.3 cm

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Shaped like Africa, this metal pin likely promoted donations to a dam building project on the continent. The lapel pin’s double meaning also urges people to care. The pin belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), who cared greatly about Africa. In the late 1980s, for...

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Ethel Lois Payne Collection, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Avis R. Johnson.
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4
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1991.0076.0132
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