Illustration of a face with a shocked expression and grey skin. The mouth is open and wrinkled on the sides, and there is a large nose and furrowed brows. The cheeks are bright red.

This button is part of  2003 "Faces" Button-O-Matic artist series produced by Busy Beaver Button Company. It was designed by artist Emily Counts.

Orange button with a googley eyed face with a circular mouth

The classic yellow smiley face 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 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.

Googly eyes are a plastic craft item meant to represent eyeballs. Typically, a white shell to represent the whites of the eyes with a loose black disc to represent the pupil are encased inside of a clear plastic lens. They are often placed on objects to personify them.

In internet culture the Face with Open Mouth consists of open eyes and open mouth within a small yellow face. The emoji represents: Oh my! or Wow! in addition to mild disbelief or awe. It is thought that the first inception of googly eyes began in the early 1900s within a comic strip by Billy DeBeck called Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. The Barney Google character had large “googly” eyes. In the 1970s Tom Blundell, an executive of a toy company (BIPIO), manufactured the craft version of googly eyes.

An illustration of twenty eyeballs with various sized pupils. The largest eye has eyelashes and a purple pupil. The other eyes have brown and blue pupils, and they are all mostly white and outlined in black. The background is dark blue, pink, and brown.

This button is part of the very first Button-O-Matic artist series in 2002 produced by Busy Beaver Button Company. It was designed by artist Krista Babbit.

Outer edge is bordered in dark blue with white text and the inner circle is white with red text. 

This button refers to a group that was created by citizens during the 1940 election between Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Republican Wendell Wilkie. It was a club based in New York where half of the members supported Roosevelt and the other half supported Wilkie. It was formed with the intention of showing national unity by all of the members supporting whoever won the election regardless of who they had supported during it. The organization wished to show people they did not need to be divided over the candidates and to present a united front to the rest of the world. The club's slogan had been "Let's Work For America" which is depicted on the button

There is an orange outline of a badge with the text placed on it. The word "Captain" is centered on the button and the text is white on a blue background, the same color as the background around the badge. The other words are blue, and the background of the badge is white.

The Safety Club sponsored by Good Humor ice cream was a club in the 1930s to promote safety around automobile traffic. Members could have different ranks, like Captain and Chief which was the highest rank.

Dark blue silhouetted landscape with yellow sky and an orange sunset. Blue text over the yellow sky and white text over the blue landscape.

“Good cheer” is a phrase that means cheerful spirits or courage. It can also refer to feasting and merrymaking or good food and drink, among other things. In this case, because the manufacturer David C. Cook Publishing Co. is primarily known as a nonprofit Christian publisher dedicated to delivering religious ideology via books and curriculum, as well as through their music division and global outreach efforts, it can be assumed that the phrase means a shout of encouragement, praise, or joy.

Illustration of a golden eagle surrounded by gold uppercase text above and below it on a blue background. 

The Golden Eagle Club is a membership in support of the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. ORU is a Division I school originally nicknamed in 1965 as the Titans and Lady Titans, it was converted to the Golden Eagles in 1993.  Their colors are Vegas Gold and Navy Blue and their mascot, “Eli” the Golden Eagle, hatched from a papier-mâché egg at his unveiling at a basketball game on November 17, 1993.

Black text on a yellow background.

Tiny Tim was an American singer and musician who was most well-known for his high falsetto voice and ukulele playing. “God Bless Tiny Tim” was Tiny Tim’s debut album and was released in 1968. Many of the songs on the album are humorous, as a result of lyrics or the style of performance. The most famous song on the album is “Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips With Me.” The album also features a cover of “I Got You Babe” in which Tiny Tim sings both parts of the duet in a falsetto and Baritone range.

An illustration of a bearded, balding man wearing glasses with an elongated nose. There is a light blue mark below the man's neck. The text arches above and below the image to surround it. The text is black on a white background.

Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist responsible for the "I'm the Guy" advertisements and artifacts is more famously known for his illustrations of inventions that were funny and complicated. His name is in the Webster dictionary is defined as "accomplishing by complex means what seemingly could be done simply". He was a dedicated cartoonist, doing both political and comical cartoons. Goldberg is also a founding member of the National Cartoonist Society whose Reuben Award is named after his proper first name, Rueben.
The popularity of the "I'm the guy..." slogans caught the eye of tobacco marketers who marketed buttons in the 1910s as an incentive to buy some of their cigarettes. There was also an "I'm the guy" song to go along with the campaign.

Red text on a white background. 

Student governments are ubiquitous in educational institutions around the world, and have a variety of purposes, though in most cases in the United States the purpose of the student government is to generally represent the interests and concerns of the student body. Representatives are generally elected to positions on this council, serving on committees and planning campus-wide events. Many higher education institutions have student governments set up similar to the federal government with a judicial branch, representatives of each organization or club, often including separate lower models for residence hall associations, black student organizations, and/or Hellenic council/Greek organizations, and senate to help make balanced decisions about the campus.