The Rescuers

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Text on Button A Walt Disney Classic, The Rescuers
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Set against a sky-blue background, two cartoon mice ride in a sardine can atop an albatross wearing pilots' goggles. Following them is a dragonfly. Above them is one line of white text followed by larger text in red. Below them are some clouds. 

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The Rescuers is an animated feature film, originally released in 1977 by Walt Disney Productions. Featuring the voices of Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, the film details the adventures of two heroic mice who set out to rescue a girl that has been kidnapped and held captive in a Louisiana bayou. A sequel, The Rescuers Down Under, was released in 1990. 

Catalog ID EN0169

The Pee-Wee Herman Show

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Text on Button THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW
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The Pee-wee Herman Show is an award-winning HBO-produced stage show created and developed by Paul Reubans in 1981. The show targeted an adult audience and included many sexual innuendos. However, the childlike character on the show, Pee-wee Herman, received wide popularity and spun off the children's classics, Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Pee-Wee's Playhouse ran from 1986 to 1990 on CBS, starring Paul Reubens as the main character. 

Catalog ID EN0145

The Little Engine That Could

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Text on Button I THINK I CAN I THINK I CAN
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Illustration of a blue train engine with a smiling face and a clown riding on the back on railroad tracks with an orange, yellow and blue background and black text

Curl Text copyright 1986 by Platt & Munk The Putnum & Grosset Group
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The children's book The Little Engine That Could was published in the 1930s. The story has been written and adapted by many, but the best known version was written by Walter Piper (a pen name used by Arnold Munk, owner of Platt & Munk publishing).  The story is about a little blue engine that carries a load of toys and other consumables across a mountain even though the little engine is too small for the job, he never stops thinking he can do it.  The main tag line from the story is, "I think I can, I think I can."

Catalog ID EN0224

The Joneses Are Coming

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Text on Button HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS THE JONESES ARE COMING
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Color Illustration of Dr. Henry 'Indiana' Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) and Professor Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery) riding a motorcycle with a side car attached. Illustration is over a orange-yellow background with a large sun in the back. The words "Hold on to your hats" are on the left side of the sun illustration in small black capital letters. The button has a blue and white border with the words "The Joneses are coming" in black red-trimmed capital letters. There is a small Paramount Pictures symbol placed under the illustration.  

Curl Text TM & Copyright © 1989 by Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL). All Rights Reserved. TM & Copyright © 1989 by Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL). All Rights Reserved.
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The 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the third Indiana Jones movie. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by George Lucas. The two main characters are Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, and Indiana's father, Henry Jones, Sr., played by Sean Connery. 

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (2019). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indiana_Jones_and_the_Last_C….

Catalog ID EN0111

The Bunkers Foist Family

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Text on Button The Bunkers, For "Foist" Family, Edith
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An image of a woman's face lies on a white and red background between red text (above) and white and black text (below).

Curl Text copyright 1972 T. P. Inc. Creative House , Chicago 60641
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Edith Bunker was a character on the CBS sitcom All in the Family, which ran from 1971 to 1979. Portrayed by Jean Stapleton, Edith was the long-suffering but devoted wife of blue-collar curmudgeon Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor). Known for her high-pitched, Queens, NY-accented voice and sweetly naive demeanor, the character, along with Archie Bunker, was one of the most beloved of television and popular American culture in general in the 1970s.

In 1972, All in the Family and its cast of characters were promoted with merchandise as a tie-in with the U.S. presidential election of that year. "Foist" is a reference to especially Archie and Edith's pronunciation of the word first with their strong Queens accents.

Catalog ID EN0142

The Beaver For President

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Text on Button The Beaver for President
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Red text on a blue background with a child's face and six black stars.

Curl Text copyright 1983 UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS Inc. BUTTON UP COMPANY 22120 RYAN RD WARREN, MI 48091
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The Beaver is the titular character from the American sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The show premiered in 1957 and was about Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver and his perspective on growing up in a middle-class American household. Leave It to Beaver was ended in 1963 when The Beaver’s brother Wally was about to go to college, which would end the brotherly bond that was a main premise of the show.  However, the show was revived in a movie for television in 1983 and a sequel to the show from 1985 to 1989. Today Leave It to Beaver is considered an iconic show and was placed on Time Magazine’s “100 Best TV Shows of all time” list.  

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Leave It to Beaver. (n.d.). Retrieved October 22, 2015 from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver. 

Catalog ID EN0229

The Age of Aquarius

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Text on Button THE AGE of AQUARIUS
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The term "Age of Aquarius" in popular culture usually refers to the period of hippie and New Age movements in the 1960s and 1970s. The 1967 musical Hair, with its opening song "Aquarius" and the lyric "This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius", drew the idea of an Aquarian age to the public's attention.

Catalog ID EN0133

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Text on Button Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Four anthropomorphic green turtles appear before a white background. Each turtle dons a different color set of headband, armbands, and kneepads: (clockwise from left) red, purple, blue, orange. Each also wields a different kind of traditional Japanese weapon: sai, bo, kitana, nunchaku. Above the characters is stylized text: white text in a red banner above larger green text that mimics the pattern of a turtle's shell.

Curl Text copyright MIRAGE STUDIOS BUTTON-UP 2011 AUSTIN TROY, MI 48083
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) were created by cartoonists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The four anthropomorphic turtles, named after Renaissance artists - Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo - made their debut in the eponymous comic book series published by Eastman and Laird's Mirage Studios in 1984. The duo published subsequent issues of the series in response to the Turtles' initial popularity. By the late 1980s they would go on to license their creations in one of the most successful franchises of entertainment history, yielding additional comic books, television shows, video games, motion pictures, and a wide array of merchandising.

Catalog ID EN0130

Superman Gold

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Illustration of the superman symbol in red on a gold background

Curl Text TM & copyright 2003 DC COMICS
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This design depicts the shield worn by the fictional superhero Superman from American comic books, DC Comics. Superman has been a character in DC Comics since the late 1930's.  The original design for the shield was first showcased in Action Comics in June of 1938 and shown as the letter "S" with with red and blue on a yellow background that looked like a police badge.  The shield became diamond shaped, as depicted in the button, in the Max Fleischer cartoon series Superman in the 1940's.  The "S" stands for Superman and has been worn on the chest of the super hero since the character's inception.

Catalog ID EN0223

Sunset Carson

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Text on Button SUNSET CARSON
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Black and white photograph of a man in a white cowboy hat on a yellow background with black text on a white banner across the bottom

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Sunset Carson was a Western film star from the 1940s whose original name was Winifred Maurice Harrison.  Before he started working in the film industry, he was a rodeo cowboy, which took him to South America for work.  He went by three different names during the course of his life, first Winifred Maurice Harrison, then Michael Harrison and finally Sunset Carson after signing a contract for his own series of Western films.  

Catalog ID EN0204