Black and white portrait of Charlie Chaplin in a prisoners uniform under white text on a blue background. 

This picture on this button is the iconic image from Charlie Chaplin's 1917 film The Adventurer, in which he played an escaped convict on the run from prison guards. In the film, He saved a young woman from drowning and fell into favor of her family, but also solicited jealousy and persecution from her suitor. He continued the prisoner character in his 1923 film The Pilgrim. 

Many of Chaplin's films often evoke sympathy for the people living in the bottom of society. The slogan on the button "Nobody's Perfect" invokes the idea of forgiveness and compassion that Chaplin promoted in his works. 

White text with white decorative lines above and below it on a red background. 

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A color photograph of Joe Biden with long hair on a blue background. 

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th Vice President of the United States, jointly elected with President Barack Obama. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973, until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency. When Obama announced his running mate, Biden's hair gained national attention. Biden infamously underwent hair “plug” surgery and was seen during the early stages of it on national television during the Anita Hill senate hearings. He has been scrutinized about his hair now that he is back in the spotlight.

A color photograph of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a crowd with blue text in the sky, white text in the trees, and yellow text on his jacket. 

In 1961, Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. stated, "In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. It is supported by Southern segregationists who are trying to keep us from achieving our civil rights and our right of equal job opportunity. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone. Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote." 

King had a long relationship with unions. On 3 April 1968, the night before his assassination, he spoke in support of the 1,300 Memphis, Tennessee sanitation workers on strike.  

In 1963, the Teamsters Local 743 participated in the March on Washington, supporting what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This button commemorates the Teamsters Local 743's Martin Luther King Day celebration in 2009.

Photograph of George Bush picking his nose encircled by white text over red and blue background. 

This button is an anti-George W. Bush button used to attack the 43rd U.S. President. The ungraceful image of Bush picking nose was from footage of him watching a baseball game, possibly in 2002. Bush's popularity dropped after U.S. and allied troops in the Iraq War faced growing insurgency led by sectarian groups in 2003. It is possible that the button was created by his political opponent during the 2004 election. 

A photograph of Susan Boyle in front of a stone bridge with a yellow and a blue border and around the outside of the photograph is white text on a gray background.

Susan Magdalane Boyle, born 1 April 1961, is a Scottish singer who came to international attention when she appeared as a contestant on the TV show Britain's Got Talent in 2009, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables. Her first album was released in November 2009 and debuted as the number one best-selling album on charts around the globe. Boyle's initial appearance on the talent show fired public imagination when her modest stage introduction and thick speaking accent left the audience, viewers and judges alike unprepared for the power and expression of her mezzo-soprano voice. Before she had finished the song's opening phrase a standing ovation for Boyle had erupted.

Blue background with a photograph of Jeff Tweedy's head inside a red circle in the center with white text above and below it.

Jeff Tweedy is an American singer and songwriter. He co-founded the band Uncle Tupelo in 1987, which is credited as a founder of the alternative country genre, as they blended alternative rock and traditional country music. After Uncle Tupelo disbanded in 1994, Tweedy went on to form Wilco, an alternative rock band that continues to record, perform, and tour today. Their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was named best album of the year in 2002 by The Village Voice and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over 500,000 copies. Although still actively part of Wilco,Tweedy also performs as part of the duo, Tweedy, alongside his eldest son, Spencer. 

Tweedy's wife, Sue Miller, is Jewish, as are his two sons, Spencer and Sam. In 2013, the same year Sam, celebrated his bar mitzvah, Tweedy converted to Judaism. These buttons were created to celebrate both occasions. 

This button was manufactured by the Busy Beaver Button Co.

Red, orange, and yellow text on a black background. 

Mass Shivers was a psych/punk band from Chicago consisting of three band members, frontman Brett Sova, drummer Sean Wilke, and bassist Andy Johnson. Their first album debuted in 2005, and they released an album a year until 2010 when they disbanded. As Mass Shivers was ending, Brett Sova started his solo career as Axis: Sova, and is still releasing albums as of 2015.

Black text over a red, green, white, and black record background. 

This button features a Led Zeppelin album parody to promote National Record Day in 2011.

This button was manufactured by the Busy Beaver Button Co.

Blue and white text with a yellow moon and white stars on a black background.

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis started his career with singles of standard music. He became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date. Johnny Mathis has sold well over 350 million records worldwide as confirmed by Guinness music chart historian Paul Gambacini, this makes Mathis the 3rd most successful recording artist of the 20th century and of the last 60 years. Johnny Mathis in Person: Recorded Live at Las Vegas is a live album by Johnny Mathis that was recorded at Caesar's Palace and released in the winter of 1972 by Columbia Records. The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated February 5, 1972, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 128.