Childs Play Two

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Text on Button CHUCKY'S BACK! CHILD'S PLAY 2 TM
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Color photograph of the character Chucky with yellow text

Curl Text CHILD'S PLAY 2 TM copyright 1990 UNIV CITY STUDIOS INC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ART EXPRESS INC. CHICAGO BCP02
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The 1990 horror film Child Play 2, written by Don Mancini and directed by John Lafia, is the sequel to Child's Play. "Chucky's back" is the tagline in the sequel.

Chucky is the killer doll in the movie series. In Child Play 2, Chucky's back as the doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, Charles Lee Ray, and tries to hunt and possess the body of Andy, the protagonist from the first movie. 

Catalog ID EN0195

Chicago Film Festival White

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Text on Button The Film Festival
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A black and white illustration of half of a person's face which stops right under the nose. The face is inside of an illustration of a film reel. Underneath the illustrations are the words "The film festival" in black letters. The words and illustrations are over a white background.  

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This button is promoting the Chicago International Film Festival. The festival was started in 1964 by Michael Kutza and is the longest running competitive film festival in North America. The festival is presented by Cinema/Chicago, a non-profit organization focused on bringing diverse cultures together through film by presenting films and allowing filmgoers to meet directors, writers, and more. The logo seen on this button is the official Chicago International Film Festival logo; the eyes were created by combining the eyes of silent screen actresses Theda Bara, Pola Negri, and Mae Murray.

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Cinema/Chicago (2014). History & Archive. Chicago International Film Festival. http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/about-us/archive-history/

Catalog ID CH0225

Chairry

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Photograph of Pee Wee Herman's talking arm chair "Chairry" on Yellow Background. 

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"Chairry" the talking armchair was a puppet character on the popular children's television show, Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Pee-Wee's Playhouse ran from 1986 to 1990 on CBS, starring Paul Reubens as the main character.

"Chairry" was played by Alison Mork, a puppeteer who has worked on many Muppet and non-Muppet productions.  

Catalog ID EN0100

Captain Kirk Yellow Shirt Star Trek

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Text on Button STAR TREK
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Color photograph of Captain Kirk in a yellow shirt with white text in the upper right corner

Curl Text AVIVA ENTERPRISES INC. SAN FRANCICO CA copyright 1978 P.P.C.
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Star Trek is science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969. The show follows the crew of the starship USS  Enterprise as they explore space and go "where no man has gone before". The show takes place in the 23rd century in the Milky Way Galaxy. The original show lasted three seasons and spawned many other television series, movies, and books.

James T. Kirk is the captain of USS starship Enterprise. Captain Kirk was a charismatic leader and pioneer of space exploration who sought out new civilizations. Kirk became Starfleet's youngest captain when he received command of the USS Enterprise for a five-year mission. Starfleet is a deep-space exploratory, peacekeeping, and military service maintained by the United Federation of Planets in the fictional universe of Star Trek.

Catalog ID EN0189

Captain Kirk Star Trek

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Text on Button STAR TREK
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Color photograph of the star trek character Captain Kirk

Curl Text copyright 1966 PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP Under License To BUTTON-UP CO 22120 RYAN WARREN MI 48091
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Star Trek is science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969. The show follows the crew of the starship USS  Enterprise as they explore space and to “boldy go where no man has gone before". The show takes place in the 23rd century in the Milky Way Galaxy. The original show lasted three seasons and spawned many other television series, movies, and books.

William Shatner originally played James T. Kirk, the captain of the starship USS  Enterprise. In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet is a deep-space exploratory, peacekeeping, and military service maintained by the United Federation of Planets. Captain Kirk had a tendency to ignore Starfleet regulations when he felt the end justified the means.

Catalog ID EN0188

Captain Kirk Blue Star Trek

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Text on Button STAR TREK ™
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Photograph of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) walking in the hallway of a ship. The words "STAR TREK"  listed on the bottom center of button in white letters with black trim. Entire photograph is tinted blue. 

Curl Text AVIVA Enterprises INC. San Francisco, CA ©1978 P.P.C.
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Star Trek is science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969. The show follows the crew of the starship USS  Enterprise as they explore space and go "where no man has gone before". The show takes place in the 23rd century in the Milky Way Galaxy. The original show lasted three seasons and spawned many other television series, movies, and books.

James T. Kirk, originally played by William Shatner, was the captain of USS starship Enterprise. Captain Kirk was a charismatic leader and pioneer of space exploration who sought out new civilizations.  

Catalog ID EN0095

Cap'n Jim Channel Eleven

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Text on Button Cap'n Jim Channel 11
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Illustration has blue text on a white background. Button reads Cap'n Jim across the top, Channel 11 across the bottom. Image of Popeye is in the center.

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Cap'n Jim refers to Jim Sanders and later Ted Eckman (aka Ted Niemi), who ran Cap'n Jim's Popeye Club on WIIC Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, Pa. The children's show ran in the late 1950s through the mid-1960s and featured live hosts, Popeye cartoons, and other segments. A second version ran for a few years starting in 1970.

Catalog ID EN0203

Bullwinkle I'm So Confused

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Text on Button I'M SO CONFUSED
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Color illustration of Bullwinkle with a confused expression. The words "I'm so confused" listed on the top of button in capital red letters. Words and illustration over white background. 

Curl Text ©1984 P.A.T.-WARD BUTTON-UP CO. 22120 RYAN, WARREN, MI 48091
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Bullwinkle J. Moose is a fictional character from the animated television series Rocky and Bullwinkle (later called The Bullwinkle Show), produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott which ran from 1959-1964. 

Bullwinkle was characterized as being kind though dim-witted. He was frequently referred to as the "moronic moose" and was juxtaposed by his intelligent friend Rocky the squirrel. The pair shared a house in a fictional town called Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which parodied the real town of International Falls, Minnesota. There Bullwinkle attended college at Wossamotta U on a football scholarship. Rocky and Bullwinkle were featured in a half-animated half-live-action film in 2000 called The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Catalog ID EN0116

Buckwheats the Breakfast of Rascals

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Text on Button BUCKWHEATS THE BREAKFAST OF RASCALS
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Buckwheat, the Little Rascal, is wearing a blue coat and a blue hat and is leaning on a black, slanted object; the lettering is white and black; all images and lettering are printed over an orange background.

Curl Text ©1988 KING WORLD PRODUCTIONS, INC. BUTTON-UP CO 2011 AUSTIN TROY, MI 48084
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This is a button featuring Buckwheat, a member of the Little Rascals, a gang of kids from Our Gang, a series of comedy short movies. Our Gang was produced between 1922 and 1944 by many different companies. The actor featured in the photo is Billie Thomas, the second person to act as Buckwheat; the original actor was, in fact, a girl. Thomas became Buckwheat in 1935 while the character was still considered a female. The character was referred to as "he" starting in 1936. 

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Wikipedia (2015 July, 31). Our gang. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang#The_MGM_era

Wikipedia (2015 July, 29). Billie Thomas. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Thomas

Catalog ID EN0182

Brave New World

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Text on Button Brave New World
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Yellow text on a black background

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Brave New World is a dystopian fictional novel published in 1932 by Aldous Huxley. The novel is set in London in the year 2540. Huxley plays with ideas of futuristic developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning. Additionally, a central theme to the novel is the division of society into five tiered castes. Each caste has a different economic role within society with lower castes being chemically manipulated to manage their levels of intelligence and physical growth.

Catalog ID EN0134