Red upper third with red band with white dots, red text on white background on lower two-thirds. 

The Chicago Cardinals were a professional football team that played in Chicago, Illinois from 1920 to 1959, before first becoming the St. Louis Cardinals from 1960 to 1987, and then moving to their now-current home in the Phoenix area, as the Arizona Cardinals. In 1920, the Racine Cardinals joined the American Professional Football Association, which became the National Football League in 1922 and changed the name to the Chicago Cardinals. The Cardinals and the Chicago Bears (originally the Decatur Staleys) are the only charter members of the  NFL still in existence. The Cardinals were one of the few teams with African-American players in the 1920's, signing the first two black lineman in the NFL, Duke Slater and Harold Bradley, Sr. However, the racism in professional baseball seeped into professional football, and in both the 1927 and 1929 seasons, Slater was the only African-American player in the league. In 1929, Slater set a record with six rushing touchdowns. 

The Chicago Cardinals won only one championship, and it was highly controversial. The championship was determined by winning percentage, and the second-place Cardinals were offered the award after the league stripped the title from the Pottsville Maroons, for playing an unauthorized exhibition game. Cardinals owner Chris O'Brien refused the championship title, arguing that his team did not deserve to take it over a team who had defeated them fairly. It was not until Cardinals' ownership changed hands to the Bidwell family in 1933 that the franchise claimed the 1925 title. The Chicago Cardinals are also the only team in American professional football history to score exactly four points in one game, losing to the Racine Legion by a score of 10-4 in 1923. 

White button with blue text. Images of stars go down the sides of the button and in the center is a shield that is red while and blue. 

The Series E U.S. Savings Bonds were marketed from 1941 to 1980 by the United States as war bonds. The Fourth War Loan Drive, one of eight drives used to raise funds during World War II, lasted from January 18 to February 15, 1944. This segment of the drive targeted farmers and women. Though the initial goal of this drive was to raise $14 billion, the final sales equaled $16.7 billion.

The Kearney and Trecker company designed and manufactured the “Milwaukee” series milling machines and as members of the farming industry they may have assisted in the promotion of the drive. 

White button with black text around a black and white photo of Emiliano Zapata with bandoleers over his shoulders

This button was made by the United Farm Workers, a union of Filipino and Mexican American farm workers, in the 1970s. The United Farm Workers were led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and won the right to organize farm workers after the Delano grape boycott in 1965-1970. The words Viva La Huelga, meaning long live the strike, are the rallying cry of the United Farm Workers. 

The picture is of Emiliano Zapata, a leader of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Zapata called for a redistribution of land and is remembered in Mexico today as a supporter of peasants and Native Americans. He became a central symbol of the United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Boycott.

White button with red text around the edge with three navy blue fighter jet illustrations featured in the middle. 

The logo featured on this button is from a recruitment poster for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, shown here. The image was published by the U.S. Army Recruiting Publicity Bureau in 1941.  

Purple text on white background with purple Aztec eagle in center. 

Beginning in September 1965, the Delano grape strike was organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California. The strike lasted over five years and ended with a consumer boycott of nonunion grapes.The strike began when farm workers refused to work while demanding federal minimum wages. The strike gained national attention and by 1970, the UFW was able to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the grape growers.

Illustration of banana with red "NO" symbol through it with black text on a white background.  Small United Farm Workers emblem next to banana.

In 1979, the United Farm Workers (UFW) called for a boycott of Chiquita bananas. The boycott was in response to low wages that farm workers received from Chiquita and was part of a series of strikes and boycotts organized by the UFW in the 1970s. The UFW demanded that grocery stores across the U.S. not stock Chiquita bananas and attempted to raise money in order to support the workers and their families.

This button was designed by Danny Flores of La Paz Keen, California at the request of Cesar Chavez. They were printed in 1978 -1979

Illustration of a red lipped toothy grin on a green background

James Earl Carter Jr., better known as Jimmy Carter, was the 39th president of the United States between 1977 to 1981. After serving a term as Georgia governor between 1971 and 1975, Carter began his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. As he was quite unknown outside of his home state of Georgia, Carter's campaign centered around his every-man anonymity and peanut farming background -- a breath of fresh air after the public's confidence in the government took a hit with both the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. During his surprisingly successful rise to the presidency, Carter became known for his trademark toothy grin which was plastered across campaign buttons, banners, masks, and even peanut paraphernalia.

Color photograph of Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paull II or, Saint John Paul the Great, served as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 until his death on April 2, 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI in 1523. This specific photograph was used in the book Pope John Paul II: A festive profile by Ludvik Nemec which was published in 1979. In his youth, Saint John Paul the Great was an avid outdoors man. As a young priest in his native Poland he earned the nickname "Uncle" as he would frequently host hiking, backpacking and kayaking trips with young people. He was a co-patron of the Archdiocese of Krakow World Youth Day and the World Meeting of Families 2015. 

Green and red text on a white background

Spur Cola is one of many products produced by Canada Dry, which has been owned by the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group since 2008. Spur Cola first appeared in 1948 after the Canada Dry Bottling Company opened in El Paso, Texas. Although the beverage is a cola-flavored, the word "cola" only appeared on the back labels of bottles. This button advertises the "big bottle", which may refer to Spur Cola being the first to offer a 12-ounce bottle, when Coke and Pepsi's largest size was still only 10 ounces. 

The Canada Dry brand first produced the Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale in 1904, and it became popular during the Prohibition Era as a mixer that helped to mask the taste of homemade liquor. The company expanded worldwide in the 1930's and has continued to produce a large number of products. 

Yellow smiley face button with teeth and braces.

The classic yellow smiley face is comprised of a yellow circle, two black dots for eyes, and a black arc ending in serifs for a mouth. It was designed in 1963 by commercial artist, Harvey Ross Ball. Ball was commissioned by The State Mutual Life Insurance Company to create a happy face to raise the morale of their employees. His version was created in 10 minutes. The design was printed onto more than 50 million buttons. Neither Ball nor the company copyrighted this smiley, so it was continually used by other businesses in their promotions.
The design and concept is quite simple and was definitely used before Ball’s 1963 version. However, his has become the most iconic. Variations have been used for advertising campaigns and in popular culture ever since.

Braces are dental tools that are used to help straighten the teeth. Typically, they are put on teenagers, but adults can get braces, too. Brackets are attached to each tooth with a wire that aligns and unifies the teeth. Slowly over time, the teeth are straightened and are then removed. New technological advances sometimes use 3-D printed plastic and 3-D modeling to create aligners rather than attach wires to the teeth, however, this is not cost effective and the metal is more typically used.