Committee

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Text on Button Committee
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A committee is a group of people who are entrusted with completing a specific task, such as a hiring committee or an election committee. The word committee can be traced back to the word “committy” from the 1500s.

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committee. Oxford English Dictionary. (n.d.). https://www.oed.com/dictionary/committee_n1

Catalog ID CL0140

Clerk

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Text on Button Clerk
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Black text on white background

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Catalog ID CL0136

B.U.Y. Booster

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Text on Button B.U.Y. Booster
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Blue hand and white hand in a handshake in the middle of the button with blue text above and below on a white background.

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Union bug embossed in the metal back.

Curl Text 3 different union bugs and the number 483 next to one of them
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Catalog ID CL0132

Bug Feature

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Text on Button BUG FEATURE
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The button is split in half with a black line and has an illustration of a bug outlined in black on each side. The bug on the right is more shaded in and slightly larger than the bug on the left. The background is light teal and the text written down the side of the button is black.

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Badge A Minit Lasalle (Illegible)

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This button may be an illustration describing the popular IT phrase, "it's not a bug; it's a feature!" This phrase is jokingly used to refer to bugs in software programs that are tolerable and not easy/critical to fix. This illustration shows this by showing the "bug" side with a plain image of a bug and by showing the "feature" side with a more detailed bug image.

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Wikipedia (2015). Undocumented feature. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

Catalog ID AR0114

Bow Wow Wow 1

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Text on Button BOW
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Large yellow text on a red background.

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Bow Wow Wow is an English new wave band that was formed by Malcolm McLaren in 1980 to promote his and Vivienne Westwood's fashion line New Romantic. The original members were Leigh Gorman (bass), Annabella Lwin (vocals), Matthew Ashman (guitar), and David Barbarossa (drums). The band is best known for their cover of "I Want Candy", a song which was originally performed by The Strangeloves in 1965. Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy" cover has become highly associated with 1980s pop music and pop culture. 

Catalog ID MU0170

Ay Carumba

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Text on Button AY CARUMBA
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White text over a red splotch on a white background. 

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This Spanish exclamation of surprise was first popularized by the Madrid flamenco dancer and singer, María Antonia Vallejo Fernández also known as La Caramba, in the 1780s. She performed a type of short satirical song called a tonadilla and ended her performance by shouting "¡caramba!," giving her the nickname. A couple centuries later, Bart Simpson brought "¡Ay, caramba!" into modern pop culture on the still-running show, The Simpsons. These were his first words and they became one of his most well-know catchphrases after "Eat my shorts!"

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¡Ay, caramba! (n.d.). Retrieved March 25, 2019, from https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/¡Ay,_caramba!

Catalog ID IB0319

Adjutant

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Text on Button Adjutant
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Black text on white background.

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Catalog ID CL0134

Sweet Young Thing

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Text on Button sweet young thing
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Black text between a line of vertical black stars on an orange background. 

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Norcross Greeting Card Company founded in the 1920s by Arthur Norcross was located in New York City for many years. The company specialized in greeting cards, novelties, and correspondence or stationery items. This novelty button was sold as a pair on a backing card for 'Buddy Buttons', a former trademark of the Norcross Greeting Card Company.

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BUDDY BUTTONS Trademark - Registration Number 0882198 - Serial Number 72306681 :: Justia Trademarks. (n.d.). https://trademarks.justia.com/723/06/buddy-buttons-72306681.html

Norcross ~ Norcross Greeting Cards ~ Greeting Card History Museum ~ Emotions Greeting Cards. (n.d.). 1997-2003 Copyright Vivian Krug Hotchkiss, Emotions Greeting Cards, VH Productions. http://www.emotionscards.com/museum/norcrossgreetingcards.html

nytimes.com. (1982, November 26). https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/26/business/norcross-struggles-to-surviv...

Catalog ID HU0015