Illustration of George Jetson with brown hair and a white shirt on a green background

The Jetsons is a cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera that originally aired from September 23, 1962 to March 17, 1963. The Jetsons live in a futuristic utopia called Orbit City in the Skypad Apartments.The Jetsons depicts an American life of the future  with robotic contraptions, robot servants, aliens, holograms, flying cars, and moving sidewalks.

George Jetson is the main character and patriarch of the Jetsons. He is married to Jane and they have two kids, Judy and Elroy. George is a well meaning family man but always seems to make the wrong decisions. He works at Spacely's Sprockets with a computer named R.U.D.I ( Referential Universal Digital Indexer) who is also his best friend.

Illustration of an orange and black cat with big round eyes holding a white flower sitting on green grass with a purple sky

Garfield is a comic strip character created by Jim Davis. At the time of its creation, Davis had noticed that dog comics were doing well but that cats were not represented, so in 1978, he published a strip chronicling the life of a cat named Garfield, his owner Jon, and Jon's dog Odie. As of 2013, it held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.

Garfield is commonly depicted as being lazy, obsessing over food, and disdaining both Mondays and diets. The comic's popularity has been largely attributed to its lack of political conversation since it instead focuses on the humor of mundane life. Since the strip's debut,it has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two animated feature-length films, and three animated direct-to-video movies.

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British Rock group The Rumour were best known as Graham Parker's backup band but they were also a band in their own right. Their 1978 album, Frogs Sprouts Clogs And Krauts, was an attempt to rebrand as a new wave band. This button is from a set of 4 each featuring parts of the album's name. 

Color photograph of the television character Fonzie in front of a white background with an American Flag on the top half and red and blue text along the bottom edge

Fonzie, also known as "The Fonz," nickname of  Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli is a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days, which ran from 1974 to 1984. He was originally a secondary character, but was soon promoted to a leading role when he proved to be the most popular character on the show.  Fonzie, with a leather jacket and signature thumbs-up gesture, grew into a cultural phenomenon, and today, the character is still embraced as a symbol for somebody who is cool and relaxed.

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Federico Fellini (1920-1993) was an Italian filmmaker and screenwriter. His style has been described as combining fantasy and baroque images with gritty, working-class sensibilities. His career spanned over 50 years and he is most well-known internationally for such films as La Dolce Vita (1960) and Amarcord (1973). In terms of his great influence, two examples can be readily seen: The term paparazzi ("a brash photojournalist") comes from the character Paparazzo in La Dolce Vita and "Felliniesque" has come to describe cinema or television that recalls Fellini's aforementioned style.

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Uncle Jim was a popular radio host in the 1930s. His show was dubbed “The Kiddies Theater of the Air with Uncle Jim”. WFIL radio was a merger of two of Philadelphia’s early stations, WLIT (originally WDAR) owned by the Lit Brothers Department Store, and WFI owned by Strawbridge and Clothier. Before the merger, the two stations shared the same frequency.

Illustration of a yellow and blue smile face wearing white sunglasses.

The curl text on this button indicates that it was a promotional item from Autoline, which is a used car dealership in Jacksonville, Florida. They opened in 2004 and the smiley face with sunglasses is used in their promotional materials.

Illustration of a face made up of a pancake with two eggs as eyes, a strawberry as a nose and two strips of bacon making a open mouthed smile.

Good morning, Mr. Breakfast is a scene in the film Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure where Pee-Wee speaks to his pancake breakfast. The film focuses on Pee-Wee Herman’s nationwide adventure to look for his stolen bike.  Warner Bros. hired creator Paul Reubens to write the full length film after the success of the Pee-Wee's Playhouse show. In 1985 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was created by Reubens and directed by Tim Burton.

Illustration of a face with eyes squeezed closed and a frown with a tongue sticking out over black text on a yellow background.

This is a variation of the classic yellow smiley face that 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 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.

The words "vote for Evel Knievel for President" listed in the center of the button in blue capital letters. The words are over a red white-trimmed background with eight stars. 

Evel Knievel was an American icon known for his daredevil stunts usually involving ramp-to-ramp jumps on his motorcycle. Born Robert Knievel in Montana, Evel Knievel was born from his childhood desire to perform stunts, performing his first show in 1966. Knievel grew to popularity as his show was taken to Las Vegas, and continued to gain publicity by jumping his motorcycle over famous landmarks including the Snake River Canyon in Idaho. Knievel slowed down in the 1980s and began marketing for big firms like Harley-Davidson, and continued to appear on television and did charity events until his death in 2007. As the result of his numerous motorcycle crashes, Knievel currently holds the title of “most broken bones in a lifetime” in the Guinness Book of World Records, having had 433 broken bones throughout his career.