Around the rim are two brown lines with black text and five small, brown illustrations of people between the lines; in the center is large, stylized text with illustrations of a wide variety of human feet emerging from the bottom of the word "PEOPLES" and small text inside the letter "O" of the large text; all on an off-white background. 

Peoples was a restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona that was open in 1980. They served sandwiches, burgers, quiche, steak, and other items, as well as original cocktails—a diverse menu aligned with their slogan "a unique place for everyone." As of 2025, Peoples no longer exists, and its former location is occupied by another restaurant. 

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The Rolling Stones are a British rock band that began performing in 1962. They are estimated to have sold over 250 million records over the years. The band was inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the UK Music Hall of Fame; and has been ranked number four and number ten of artists worldwide by Rolling Stone magazine and Billboard magazine, respectively.

Released on June 9, 1978, Some Girls is the 14th studio album by the Rolling Stones and is the single best-selling Rolling Stones record. The original album art featured a parody of a vintage wig advertisement, depicting the band members in drag as well as many iconic celebrities such as Farrah Fawcett and Lucille Ball. The band, however, did not obtain permission from the women and/or their estates and thus the original album pressings became collectors’ items as the band was legally prevented from printing more albums with the original art. 

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The NAACP, or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. Founded in 1909, the NAACP advocated for the rights and wellbeing of Black Americans with regards to legal protections, health, and economic opportunities. Buttons such as these were meant to be worn by NAACP members.  

The overall design has a three-dimensional round effect, with an illustration of a globe black text on top. The "O" and "K" in the word "McCormick" are red for emphasis. 

Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884) was a manufacturing visionary. McCormick utilized the financial means of then-mayor of Chicago William Ogden to set up a small manufacturing factory in 1848. During this time, an important canal opened—the Illinois & Michigan Canal—which linked Lake Michigan with the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. In essence, McCormick saw then-small Chicago (population ~20,000) transform into a city rich with infrastructure and trade. Over the next few years, McCormick expanded the McCormick Reaper Works into “the world’s largest farm machine factory” (ASSEMBLY). By 1850, the factory had 200 employees working 100,000 square feet of factory space. 

By the late 1800s, the company had sent out farming equipment “all over the world” via its McCormick Shipping Line. Much of the company's advertising reads: "The OK Line, the McCormick Line, OK All Over the World and an All 'Round Success."

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Southold, New York is a town founded in 1640 by Puritans relocating from the New Haven colony. In 1915, the town celebrated its 275th anniversary with a week of activities to commemorate the community and its founding. Events of the week included a carnival, a parade, a baseball game, many speeches, and a historical pageant.  

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The Center for Cuban Studies is a nonprofit founded in 1972 in New York City. The Center is dedicated to providing information about historic and contemporary Cuba, as well as contributing to the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States. The Center houses a collection of more than 12,000 posters, photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, ceramics, and other examples of visual arts in Cuba; plus thousands of slides, catalogs, books, and other information about Cuban artists, providing a unique look into the country’s evolution both culturally and artistically. 

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“CHOICE” is a short way of saying “pro-choice”—support for the idea that people should be able to decide for themselves whether to have an abortion. It’s essentially a one-word stand for bodily autonomy and legal access to abortion. The button itself is a pin-back protest badge, part of a long tradition of using buttons to share political views. Simple “CHOICE” designs like this were especially common from the 1970s through the 1990s, alongside clearer slogans such as “A Woman’s Right to Choose” and rally buttons like “Keep Abortion Safe & Legal.”

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In 1966, American author and editor of counterculture magazine The Whole Earth Catalogue, Stewart Brand, waged a campaign to have NASA release a satellite photo of earth from space that they were rumored to possess. Brand believed that the image of planet earth could be a powerful symbol for “evoking a sense of shared destiny and adaptive strategies from people.” Brand decided on the slogan “Why haven’t we seen a photograph of the whole earth yet?” to represent his campaign and subsequently had several hundred buttons and posters made with the slogan printed on them. Brand then spent time mailing the buttons out to NASA officials, members of congress and their secretaries, Soviet scientists, UN officials, and various diplomats. It was reported that the buttons made their way onto the lapels of many a NASA employee and, the following year in 1967, an image of earth as viewed from space was released to the public. 

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The summer of 1977 saw a large agricultural movement in Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas, driven by low farm prices amongst farmers. Farmers were left to foot the bill for fuel, seed, and pesticide costs while struggling with “sour” prices and unwilling lenders. A farm strike was staged; the farmers wanted Congress to pass legislation raising farm prices, as low prices persisted alongside heavy debts, even after the then-recently-passed Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. By late summer, the movement had gained momentum, and twenty states had joined the cause.

Thus, farmers wanted to “bring justice to America’s fields.”

Huge tractorcades followed into 1978. By January of ’78, Oklahoma finally passed a resolution favoring “a guaranteed price for agricultural products… at 100% of parity.” The American Agricultural Movement (AAM) held a national convention in Oklahoma City on April 24th and 25th of 1978. Neighboring businesses in several communities closed shop for the two days in solidarity. While Congress did pass some helpful measures to farmers, the organization did not succeed with many of their demands and eventually faded away. According to the April 2020 census, there are only 415 remaining members.