Vote Blue Bell

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White button with blue text. The image of a blue bell is bottom center. 

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Blue Bell Creameries is a food company based in the United States that produces ice cream. Founded in 1907 in Brenham, Texas, Blue Bell manufactured both butter and ice cream. In the 1950s, the company expanded to the rest of the southern U.S. As of 2015, Blue Bell was the fourth highest-selling ice cream brand in the U.S.

Catalog ID AD0609

Valley Hospital

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Text on Button VALLEY HOSPITAL Las Vegas wants You!
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Blue background with white and black text. An illustration of a man in a cowboy hat and a woman in a nurse hat.

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Valley Hospital 620 Shadow Lane Las Vegas, Nevada 89106 (702) 385-3011

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Valley Hospital was founded in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1972. It is one of six hospitals in the Valley Health System, and it claims national recognition for its Primary Stroke Center and its Chest Pain Center. Along with providing neurological and surgical services, they also offer 24/7 emergency care. 

Catalog ID AD0659

Tuesday is Margaritaville

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Text on Button Tuesday is MARGARITAVILLE
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White button with black and white outlined green text. 

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“Tuesday is Margaritaville” was an advertising slogan used by now-defunct Mexican chain restaurant Chi-Chi’s.The chain’s lounge (or “cantina”) was referred to as “Margaritaville,” and this button is related to a two-for-one margarita special offered there on Tuesdays.


The cantina shared a name with a hit song by Jimmy Buffet’s, recorded in 1977. When Chi-Chi’s attempted to register a trademark on the “Margaritaville” in 1985, Buffet successfully opposed the registration, citing that fact that the popularity of the song meant that its title was virtually synonymous with his public persona.

Catalog ID SM0065

The Hiding Place

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Text on Button THE HIDING PLACE
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White button with red text. 

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The Hiding Place is a 1975 film based on a true story about a Christian family in the Netherlands who hid a Jewish family in their home during World War II and were subsequently arrested and sent to a concentration camp. It starred Jeanette Clift as Corrie ten Boom and earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Female Newcomer upon its release. The title of the film is inspired both by the literal hiding place in the home of the ten Booms but also by a line in Psalm 119 which reads, "Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word," a reference to the strong Christian themes of the film.

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Brown, William F. & Jacobsen, F. (Producers), & Collier, James F. (Director). (1975). The Hiding Place. United States: World Wide Pictures.

Catalog ID AD0660

Sunshine Milk

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Text on Button I LIKE SUNSHINE MILK
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Yellow button with red text. 

Curl Text Modern Selling Aids Portland 6 Oregon
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Founded by Greek restaurateur John Karamanos, Sunshine Dairy Foods began as a daily dairy delivery service for the local food industry in Portland, Oregon, in the 1930s. Sunshine is still family-owned and has remained committed to local foodservice customers, retailers, and manufacturer partners. The company sources milk from family farmers in Oregon and Washington who have pledged not to inject their dairy cows with the artificial stimulant rBST. Sunshine products are marked with the company's logo of a bright yellow illustration of a sun. 

Catalog ID AD0664

Santa Likes Me

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Text on Button SANTA LIKES ME it's Christmastime! Wieboldt's
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Green and red text with an illustration of Santa Claus in the middle on a white button. 

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Wieboldt Stores, Inc. was a Chicago general retailer that opened in 1883 and closed in 1986 after the company went bakrupt. Its flagship location was State Street in downtown Chicago with a number of other locations in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Wieboldt's cultivated a welcoming atmosphere, employing a multilingual sales staff. For that reason, they were popular among working-class shoppers who could not afford or felt unwelcome in the big downtown department stores.

Like most department stores during the late nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries, they had elaborate Christmas decorations and displays with accompanying advertising campaigns. Wieboldt's even sponsored a seasonal radio show and then television program featuring the Cinnamon Bear, which told the story of a stuffed bear who lived in the enchanted world of Maybeland. The Cinnamon Bear aided two young children who came to Maybeland to find the lost the silver star that topped their Christmas tree. Wieboldt's sold stuffed teddy bear versions of the Cinnamon Bear during the Christmas season.

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Ledermann, Robert P. (2002). Christmas on State Street: 1940s and Beyond. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing. Accessed from https://books.google.com/books?id=bgadaf-Xr3kC&dq=wieboldt%27s+christma….

Newman, Scott A. (January 12, 1997). "W.A. Wieboldt Company." Jazz Age Chicago. Retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20041013012256/http://chicago.urban-history….

Catalog ID EV0227