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This button commemorates the purchase of Carnegie Steel Company by the United States Steel Corporation.  USS or U.S. Steel was a large corporation with control over many subsidiary companies.  After the purchase of Carnegie Steel in the early 1900's, the subsidiary company changed the name to Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company in the 1930's.

Carnegie Steel was established in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania is the late 1800's by Andrew Carnegie.

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In the mid 1960s, the fast food chain Burger Chef joined with the comic strip The Family Circus in an advertising campaign. The Indianapolis-based chain, which began in 1954, was a competitor of McDonalds, and launched numerous ads in attempts to become number one in the fast food industry. Their campaign with The Family Circus contributed to their success and at their peak in 1973 Burger Chef had over 1,000 locations. However, the chain was sold to Hardee's and the final Burger Chef closed its doors in 1996.

The Family Circus was created in February 1960 by Bill Keane. The comic, which appears as both a daily strip and Sunday strip, is about the Keane family's daily suburban life centering on the children in the family. Featured on the button is Jeffy, the three-year-old based on the cartoonist's youngest son. Appearing in over 1,500 newspapers, The Family Circus is now one of the most famous comic strips in the world.

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In 1927, John Goerlich founded the Associated Parts (AP) and Goerlich companies to cater to both wholesale and aftermarket customers. In 1928, they introduced a universal muffler to the market and later made mufflers their signature product and the focus of ad campaigns and promotions due to greater business potential. AP has since expanded to offer a comprehensive range of exhaust and emissions products through its online catalog.

Goerlich's, the aftermarket business, was rebranded under the AP name in 2006. AP has been known by several names in its lifetime, including Associated Parts, AP Exhaust Technologies, and AP Emissions Technologies.

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American Oil Company, known as Amoco, ran its "Join the 'American' Party" ad campaign from the 1930s and 1940s. In 1936, newspapers announced that gas stations were giving out multi colored, engraved portraits of the Presidents of the United States as collectible stamps as well. A billboard from 1942 read "For Greater Values Join the American Party - American Gas Amoco." Amoco, was incorporated in 1922 and later became part of Standard Oil of Indiana, which had been broken off from the Standard Oil trust in 1911. In the 1920s, Amoco was among the first oil companies to sell lead-free gasoline as well as leaded gas. Amoco merged with British Petroleum (BP) in 1998.

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This button was created for the Custer High School Indians, also known as Warriors, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The mascot has changed from Warriors to Cougars. It is possible the mascot change is more recent as the state of Wisconsin created a law banning the use of Native-American inspired mascots.

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This button was created for the Custer High School Warriors, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The mascot has changed from Warriors to Cougars. It is possible the mascot change is recent as the state of Wisconsin created a law banning the use of Native-American inspired mascots.

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Pikes Peak is located in Pikes National Park in Colorado.  The mountain is named after Zebulon Pike, an American explorer who attempted to climb the mountain in the autumn of 1806, but failed to reach the top.  

The Spanish were the first to discover the peak in the 1700s.  It is now both a tourist attraction and the home to the United States Army Pikes Peak Research Laboratory.  

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Women for a Democratic America was a campaign slogan utilized during the 1996 United States Presidential election by the Democratic Party.  Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore were First and Second Lady of the United States, respectively, from 1993 to 2001, while their husbands, Bill Clinton and Al Gore served as President and Vice President.  

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The motivation behind this slogan is to get out the female vote in elections by way of linking women's suffrage to the Democratic Party.  Historically, the Democratic Party has proven popular among women due to the Party's view on reproductive rights.  

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The slogan "War is Not the Answer" was produced and distrubed on bumper stickers and buttons by the Sojourners Organization at the beginning of the Iraq war.  The organization, Sojo for short, is Christian based with a mission of expanding a movement orientated at social justice and peace.