A red and white monk illustration exhales smoke while holding a cigarette. Button has a blue background with white text, with the button edges outlined in white.

Foy was a manufacturer of rolling papers in the 1960-1970s. The relaxed man exhaling smoke is Mr. Foy, demonstrating how "Foy brings joy." Some packages were "produced with pure hemp fibre", a statement printed between two cannabis leaves. 

Illustration of a waving white flag with red outline and four vertical blue stripes, on a white flagpole.  Navy blue background.

When the United States entered World War I, the Federal Government began selling "liberty bonds" to citizens to help cover war expenses. These bonds, sold primarily by the girl and boy scouts, were small loans taken by the U.S. government in which they would repay the citizens in the future. When the first three Liberty Loan Acts proved insufficient, the Fourth Liberty Loan Act was passed September 28, 1918, issuing $6 billion in war bonds with an interest rate of 4.25% for up to ten years. Artists were commissioned to create posters and famous actors, such as Charlie Chaplin gave speeches encouraging the public to do their patriotic duty and contribute to the war effort by purchasing one of these bonds.

White text on red background on top; bottom third has a blue background with white text along with a small illustration of an egg and jar of cream labeled in red.

Like many other companies at this time, Fischer took advantage of celluloid buttons to catch the eye of bread-buyers. This trend began in the 1910s with the Ward Baking Company and really caught on by the 1930s.

Black illustration of cartoon face peering out on the left with a lenticular eye (watches you as you move), red text on white background.

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Nigh time photograph of Epcot's icon, Spaceship Earth, a large metallic sphere lit in blue and gold (somewhat resembles a golf ball) flanked by palm tress. Text is small and in white at the bottom.

Spaceship Earth, the 18-story geodesic sphere and theme park attraction, is the symbolic icon of EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), a Utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney.

The term was coined by Buckminster Fuller, known for his innovative work with geodesic domes among other things. And it’s reported that popular science fiction writer Ray Bradbury helped design the dome and original storyline for the attraction. Construction took over two years, and was sponsored originally by Bell Systems before the breakup, then AT&T until 2004; German company Siemens took over sponsorship after that. The theme of the attraction being a travel through the timeline of human communication, it is updated regularly to reflect current realities.

A black cat wearing a cylindrical container of Dustbane leaps on a pile of dust. Orange text outlined in black is featured at the top and bottom, other text is black.

Dustband Products Limited is a sanitary solutions company founded in 1908 by two entrepreneurial Canadians, Chester E. Pickering and George W. Green. Their first bright idea was to convince people to buy from them a product they were already using for free! The product was sawdust, which at the time was used as to clean floors. Pickering and Green added some pine-scent, made the sawdust green and marketed it as Dustbane Sweeping Compound. It worked. Over the years Dustbane has become a leader in the cleaning and sanitation industry selling environmentally friendly products for cleaning, finishing, polishing, scrubbing, sealing and sweeping in all sorts of commercial environments.

Red text with blue illustration of a yelling big-headed woman on a white background.

Culligan is an international water softening and purification company based in Rosemont, Illinois. Culligan is known for it's advertisements of a housewife yelling out the slogan "Hey Culligan man!" The campaign was originally created in 1959, and ran for 3 decades.

Brown and red text inside white banner, vertically split yellow and red background.

Wilson's Corn King Bacon is a premium brand that has its roots in Chicago's notorious stockyards of the early 1900s. Thomas E. Wilson (1868-1958) worked his way up from railroad car checker to president during his 25 year career at the southside's Morris & Co., but it was his subsequent role at struggling New York-based meat packing company Saltzberger & Sons (S&S) which stamped his name on the bacon. Wilson moved the headquarters to Chicago's Union Stock Yark and renamed the company Wilson & Co, Inc. in 1918.

Not letting anything go to waste, Wilson's side project as president of the Ashland Manufacturing Company (1915-1918) used animal by-products from its slaughterhouses to make tennis racket strings, violin strings and surgical sutures. Later renamed Thomas E. Wilson Company (Wilson Sporting Goods), the company expanded to include all sorts of sporting equipment. 

A blue gramophone features white text within the image. The background is white.

The Columbia Graphophone Company was the UK subsidiary of the Columbia Phonograph Company. The Phonograph Company was founded in 1887 and sold Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders, including some cylinder recordings of its own. The Graphophone Company became the UK subsidiary in 1922 and in 1931 it merged with the Gramophone Company to form EMI, or Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. 

"Army" of starched folded shirts marching on a map of the North America continent. Map is in orange, blue and white and surrounded by a dark blue ring with white text.

The slogan "The Clean Shirts of America" shows up in several newspapers advertising local companies providing laundry and cleaning services. Ad copy in the ads is the same or similar, all promoting the benefits of a clean shirt.

"Its procedure is simple. 1. Put on a clean shirt. 2. Look, feel and act prosperous. There's nothing like a clean shirt for boosting the morale. Join the Clean Shirts of America and take your place in the Big Parade Back to Better Times!"

The ads appear in the early 1930's coinciding with the Great Depression. The ads speak directly to the times: "boosting the morale" of the throngs of Americans out of work, and referencing "better times." Some of the ads include the Blue Eagle symbol - NRA Member: We Do Our Part" - representing companies that comply with the National Industrial Recovery Act.