An illustration of a guy with shaggy hair playing a cracked guitar with broken strings. He is wearing a blazer and a t-shirt that says "ROCK", and platform shoes. His left arm is bandaged and his right leg is wrapped with a wooden splint. The background is white  and the illustration is outlined in black.

The figure found on this button is from a record sleeve found in Dave Edmund’s album Twangin… The album was released in 1981 by the label Swan Song. Dave Edmunds is a Welsh singer mainly associated with pub rock and new wave music. Many of the songs he produced were covers of other songs that he reworked to fit his style. His most recent album was released in 2013 and contained 5 new vocal recordings, the first in nearly 2 decades for him.

Black text on a white background at the top with a photograph of Uncle Bob underneath and red and black text on a white background under the photograph. 

Philip H. Grennan was the founder and owner of Grennan Cakes. The business was established in Detroit, Michigan in 1914 as the Grennan Cake Bakeries and was later consolidated in 1919 into the Grennan Cake Corporation. Branches of the company, in 1921, were located in Chicago, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Paul, Milwaukee, and Toledo. The company specialized in ready-to-eat cake. The ready-to-eat cake was marketed to housewives as a relief from baking on hot summer days. In a 1921 article in Printer’s Ink, housewives confirmed that they were purchasing pre-made cakes because they had “relief from baking-day work, banishing hot kitchen toil, saving time and money, quality and variety.” (p. 49). In 1924 the company was supplying cakes, cookies, and fried cakes to around 482 cities and towns. There is an announcement in Kokomo Daily Tribune from Thursday May 16, 1929 for the Uncle Bob Cake Club of Children radio program. The radio program was on NBC Chicago at 8:00 and featured 30 minutes of Music and Stories. 

Multiple geometric shapes with black, white, yellow, pink, green, and light blue colors.

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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.