Extend Yourself

Extend Yourself Ice Breakers Button Museum
Category
Ice Breakers
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Extend Yourself button back Ice Breakers Button Museum
Text on Button EXTEND YOURSELF
Image Description

Blue text over orange background. 
Curl Text BUTTON WORKS 300 BROAD ST. NEVADA CITY, CA. 95959 Union Bug
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
2 1/2 inch
The Manufacturer
The Button Works
Additional Information

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Catalog ID IB0400

Down With Homework

Down With Homework Ice Breakers Button Museum
Category
Ice Breakers
Humorous
Additional Images
Down With Homework button back Ice Breakers Button Museum
Wise Guy Metal Button wrapper
Wise Guy Metal Button box
Sub Categories
Topps Wise Guys
Illustrations
Litho
Text on Button DOWN WITH HOMEWORK
Image Description

Three books being lobbed out a window next to white and black text over red and yellow background. 
Curl Text JAPAN
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
2 inch
Year / Decade Made
1960s
1965
The Manufacturer
Topps
Additional Information

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.
Catalog ID IB0459

Down With Everything

Down With Everything Ice Breakers Button Museum
Category
Ice Breakers
Humorous
Additional Images
Down With Everything button back Ice Breakers Button Museum
Wise Guy Metal Button wrapper
Wise Guy Metal Button box
Sub Categories
Topps Wise Guys
Illustrations
Litho
Text on Button DOWN WITH EVERYTHING
Image Description

Thumbs down over yellow background encircled by blue and red text over white background. 
Curl Text JAPAN
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
2 inch
Year / Decade Made
1960s
1965
The Manufacturer
Topps
Additional Information

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.
Catalog ID IB0455

Don't Be A Gloom

Don't Be A Gloom Social Lubricators Button Museum
Category
Advertising
Humorous
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Don't Be A Gloom button back Social Lubricators Button Museum
Sub Categories
Cigarettes
Illustrations
Text on Button DON'T BE A GLOOM T.P.
Image Description

Gloomy bearded man stands to the right of black text over yellowed background. 
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
7/8 inch
Year / Decade Made
1910s
Additional Information

Illustrator Thomas E. Powers (1870-1939) is known as the first American to draw a color comic strip for a newspaper, the New York Evening World. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, educated in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked briefly in Chicago, Illinois before moving to New York City in 1894. Gloom is a character from his best-known comic "Joy and Gloom."
Sources

Source: T. E. Powers. (2012, June 14). lambiek.net. Retrieved October 15, 2014, from http://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/powers_te.htm.
Catalog ID AD0396

Does It Tickle

Does It Tickle Ice Breakers Button Museum
Category
Ice Breakers
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Sub Categories
Litho
Text on Button DOES IT TICKLE?
Image Description

Red text encircled by blue and white checkered border over white background. 
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/8 inch
Additional Information

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Catalog ID IB0464

Cool Kid

Cool Kid Ice Breakers Button Museum
Category
Ice Breakers
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Cool Kid button back Ice Breakers Button Museum
Text on Button COOL KID
Image Description

Purple ombre text over orange checkered background. 
Curl Text AGC, Inc.
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/2 inch
Additional Information

A "cool kid" refers to a young person who is a trendsetter and usually emulated by his or her peers. 

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Catalog ID IB0482

I'm the Guy That Put the Con in Congress

I'm the Guy That Put the Con in Congress Advertising Button Museum
Category
Advertising
Humorous
Additional Images
I'm the Guy That Put the Con in Congress button back Advertising Button Museum
Sub Categories
Cigarettes
Illustrations
Rube Goldberg
I'm the Guy
Text on Button I'M THE GUY THAT PUT THE CON IN CONGRESS
Image Description

Con man centered in black text over white background. 
Back Paper / Back Info

Quality Tokio Cigarette Factory No 649 1st DIST. NEW YORK THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. PATENTED
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
7/8 inch
Year / Decade Made
1910s
The Manufacturer
Whitehead & Hoag Co.
Additional Information

Illustrator Rube Goldberg was born in San Francisco, California and moved to New York City around 1907. The phrase "I'm the guy who" was a trademark expression of Goldberg. He coined it around 1910.  He was well known cartoonist and created "Mike and Ike" and "Boob McNutt" among many other strips.  Later in life, Goldberg help found the National Cartoonist Society (1946) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize (1948) for his political cartoons.
Sources

Rube Goldberg. (2012, June 14). lambiek.net. Retrieved October 15, 2014, from http://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/goldberg_r.htm.
Catalog ID AD0392
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