Blue button with yellow text going around the rim. Snoopy is in the middle of the button smiling. 

Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet dog in the Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz. Though Snoopy's character was introduced in 1950, it was not until 1956 that the dog was illustrated as walking on his hind legs. Throughout the comics Snoopy pretends to be different world famous characters only to be taken down by his imaginary enemy, the Red Baron. Snoopy imagines he can speak, but only his friend and sidekick Woodstock can understand him.  

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Pokemon: The First Movie is a Japanese anime film, which premiered in Japan in 1998. The movie was released in North American theaters in 1999, and then released on home video in 2000.

Since 1995, the Pokemon media franchise company has been entertaining children. The franchise centers on fictional characters called Pokemon. There are currently over 700 characters who are captured and trained to battle one another, and as they are trained, the characters evolve and grow stronger. In addition to movies, the products of the company include video games, a trading card game, toys, and an animated television series. 

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Formosa oolong tea is from Taiwan. Oolong teas are made from the same plant as black and green teas, but the difference lies in how the leaves and stems are processed. Green tea is unfermented, black is fully fermented, and oolong lies in between the two, being partially fermented. Taiwanese oolongs tend to be fruitier and darker than other oolong teas, which is due to environmental differences. Tea plants in Taiwan are grown on mountains at high elevations, which is believed to account for the tea's unique flavor.

"PAINT YOUR WAGON" is written in bold white text with striped background on a white button. A re-colorized image of a girl in a western outfit smoking a cigarette is below the text.

This is one of a series of six buttons designed by Peter Max to promote the 1969 movie Paint Your Wagon. The film is a western musical starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg. It was adapted from a Broadway show with the same title and cost $20 million to make, which was a large budget for film production at the time. The movie received negative reviews, and the costs were never recouped.

Peter Max is a graphic artist know for his use of psychedelic shapes and bold color palettes.

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Bright orange button with black text on a sign that the illustration of Schroeder, a Peanuts character, is holding. 

Schroeder is one of the beloved characters in the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schultz who is an avid lover of Beethoven and was often found in each panel playing his piano or listening to various compositions by Beethoven. He is the only one of the Peanuts clan that celebrates Beethoven’s birthday, which is on December 16th.

Schroeder is noted as first celebrating Beethoven’s birthday in a 1953 panel and almost every year in December following that first strip. After that first celebration, a running gag has Schroeder holding up signs to remind everyone that Beethoven’s birthday is coming up. This love of Beethoven and reference to musical themes throughout the comic’s history is reported as mimicking Schulz’s own love of the composer, with Schroeder as his alter ego.

Red white and blue vertical stripes make up the background of this button. A ribbon with Lady Liberty in yellow is in the foreground and white text outlined in black. 

Liberty is a western film serial released by Universal Pictures in 1916. In the film, an American heiress, Liberty Horton, is kidnapped by a Mexican rebel and ransomed. Serial films were popular in the early twentieth century and consisted of a long film edited into chapters. The chapters were then released to theaters in consecutive order, and each episode ended with a cliffhanger to keep audiences coming back to see the next chapter. Westerns were a popular film serial genre, along with crime fiction, comic strip characters, and science fiction.

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“Love in the Afternoon” was an advertising campaign for General Hospital from 1975 to 1985. It focused on the love lives of the main characters of the show.

General Hospital is an American soap opera that has been on air for over 50 years! The show was created by husband-and-wife duo Frank and Doris Hursley. Set in the fictional town of Port Charles in upstate New York, the show follows the loves, lives, and danger of all the characters. General Hospital has won countless awards for Daytime Emmys like Outstanding Drama Series, Lead Actor/ess, and Supporting Actor. Further, the show has won awards by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Daytime Serials and by the Writers Guild of America for Daytime Serials. The success of General Hospital has led to the creation of spin-off dramas.

One Life To Live was created by Agnes Nixon and premiered in 1968 and ran through 2013. It was one of the first shows to depict people from all different backgrounds, interracial relationships, and drug addiction. It focuses on the Lord family in Pennsylvania. Its main character, played by Erika Slezak, won a record six Daytime Emmy Awards. 

Black text with the image of Garfield the cat laying on a beach under an umbrella with a drink.

Garfield, the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world since 2002, was first published in 1978. Cartoonist Jim Davis decided to focus his comic on a cat to fill what he saw as a hole in the market. Davis was a business major at Ball State and worked in advertising, and always acutely managed Garfield as a brand as much as a comic. He recognized the marketability of animal characters and noticed that there were many popular cartoon dogs, but no cats. So he created Garfield, naming him after his grandfather John Garfield Davis, a man Davis said had "a gruff exterior but a soft heart."

An image of Mickey Mouse in a rocket ship being chased by Pete in a UFO with red and yellow text. 

Disney Comics was a publishing company, owned by The Walt Disney Company, that operated from 1990-1993. The company was created so that The Walt Disney Company would not have to rely on other publishing companies to continue publication of their comic book series, which began in 1940. Early in the history of the series, the comic books primarily contained reprints of Disney comic strips, but by the mid 1940s, original stories and serials were included in the books. In addition to Disney Comics, the comic book series has been published by six other companies over the years.