White text on blue background with a white ribbon holding a keychain type fob with a plastic white iceskate

Holiday on Ice is a traveling, family friendly, ice skating show. Beginning in 1943, Emery Gilbert came up with the idea of making portable ice skating rinks, complete with refrigeration units that could be taken around the world and used for professional ice skating shows. He contacted two men for help, Morris Chalfen, who procured the financing, and George Tyson, who would coordinate the shows. Thus, Holiday on Ice was born. It featured professional skaters with lavish sets and costumes, skating to popular music with chorus line kick routines and the signature wagon wheel move, where skaters would join each other by linking arms and creating the spokes of a wagon wheel. Fireworks would always end the shows.

Holiday on Ice would take on the Ice Vogues skating show and would go international, traveling to many countries, while Holiday would stay in the U.S. From 1953-56, movie star Sonja Henie joined the Holiday on Ice family, she would tour internationally for those three years. In 1959, the show even toured Russia for the first time. And in 1963, tragedy would strike the show, when a gas leak at a show at the Indianapolis state fairground exploded killing 74 people.

Black text on a light blue background with a black and white photograph of a man in the center

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Yellow background with black and red text, a rainbow across the bottom, and a red plastic dial in the center that changes the text that shows in the window across the bottom.

Wanna Enterprises, Inc. was a producer of patented dial-type buttons between 1982 and 1984. They were headquartered in Rochester, NH. The company produced a variety of novelty designs included astrology themed buttons, birthday buttons, personalized buttons with many name options, and explicit buttons intended for an adult audience

Photograph of a Jagermeister bottle on a red and black pinwheel like background with white text and a white spinning arrow attached.

This button was designed as a game to determine who bought the next round of Jagermeister and where it would be drunk. Jagermeister was created by Curt Mast in Wolfenbuttel, Germany, in 1935. The recipe was created with 56 herbs, blossoms, roots and fruits. The name Jagermeister (translated "hunt master") and the stag emblem was said to be in honor of Wolfenbuttel tradition, where it was frequently consumed as a post-hunt drink.  

Brown soft fabric hat shape in the center of a white circle with an outer brown edge with white text

Lanpher, Skinner & Co. was a furrier and clothing company in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Illustration of a rotary phone dial in black and white with a window in the middle where the identification badge text shows through in red and white

The Pennsylvania State Telephone and Traffic Association was created in 1920 as a merge of Eastern and Western Pennsylvania Independent Telephone Associations and the Eastern Traffic Association of Independent Telephone Companies for the purpose of creating one stronger company. The company was not named the Pennsylvania State Telephone and Traffic Association until 1938, a year after the death of the company President. Now known as the Pennsylvania Telephone Association, the company “represents the interests of its rural local exchange telephone company members before regulatory and government bodies, and provides a forum for the exchange of information and ideas.”

This button was use at the annual convention in 1931. 

Black and white photograph of a man's head wearing a sailors hat on a white background with black text above and below

During his lifespan, Ronald Reagan served in the military, was an actor, was Governor of California and President of the United States (1981-1989). At times, his movie roles mirrored his military affiliation. Reagan's military service was from 1937-1945. He first served in the Army Calvary then was transferred to the Army Air Force unit. Two of the movies that had Reagan portraying a sailor include Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) and Hellcats of the Navy (1957). It was on the set of Hellcats of the Navy where he met Nancy Davis, his future wife.

Illustration of a horse and a cow on a yellow background above a ribbon with black text on it over illustrations of a pig, a sheep, more horses, a watermelon and other produce with a white outer edge with black text. It also has a red and a white ribbon attached at the bottom and a chain attaching a small brown pipe to the button

The State Fair of Texas is the annual state fair held in Dallas, Texas in Fair Park. The fair has been held each year since 1886 apart from various periods of time during both World Wars. The fair primarily runs from the last Friday of September and lasts 24 days. The fair frequently sees nearly 3 million attendees and is widely recognized as one of the best state fairs in the United States. 

Illustration of the front of a white shirt with a blue striped tie and a pocket with pens in it, underneath is a flesh colored chest with superhero in red and black text

This button was created as part of the Busy Beaver Button Co.'s Button-O-Matic 2011 series "Superhero!" by Abbey Hambright. In an interview on the Busy Beaver blog she describes the inspiration for the button, "We were brainstorming different things that superheroes do— they scale tall buildings, rescue babies and old people, they defeat evil villains, when it hit me: they tear off their shirts! Thus the first ever tear-off button was born." The full interview and an animation of the button's shirt being torn off can be found here: https://www.busybeaver.net/blog/2011/08/23/behind-the-button-abbey-hambright/. The animated gif is also viewable above.

Blue text and roman numerals that make up a clock face with a red stripe across the bottom with blue text on it and metal clock hands

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