Blue text on a light blue background. 

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Large yellow text on an orange background. 

Air Jamaica created an optimistic campaign to entice visitors during the 1970s - "I Feel Good All Over." The goal was to encourage vacationers who were looking for a good time to travel to the Caribbean and Jamaica. This button, along with others like it, was created as part of the campaign. Here is another example of another in our collection: "I Was Born With A Smile On My Face."

Green text on a yellow background.

“Hogs are beautiful” is the slogan for the Hog Growers Association. The slogan was featured on numerous buttons that were given out at state and county fairs.  

A gold silhouette of a swimmer is above three lines of gold text printed on a green-cloth background. 

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Pink text outlined in black on a yellow background. 

This is a variation of a "Happy Birthday to Me" button often worn at a birthday celebration by the person of honor. 

An anthropomorphized banana dances with a hat next to black text on an orange background. 

The phrase "go bananas" has its roots on American college campuses from the 1960s. It is believe the term evolved from "going ape" which meant to explode with anger or enthusiasm, much like the mammal counterpart.

Hallmark began in 1910 when Joyce Clyde Hall started selling postcards. He had little money—not even enough to take a horse-drawn cab to his lodgings at the YMCA—but he had an entrepreneurial spirit and the determination of a pioneer. Hall quickly made a name for himself with the picture postcards he sold. Rollie Hall joined his brother in business, and the company was named Hall Brothers. On January 11, 1915, a fire destroyed their office and inventory. They took the only salvageable item, their safe, and set up shop again. With $17,000 in debt, they decided to press onward. As postcard sales declined, they recognized the public’s desire for more privacy in their communication, so they started offering high-quality Valentine’s Day and Christmas cards mailed in envelopes. The fateful fire resulted in the Hall brothers’ decision to buy printing presses and begin producing their own greeting cards in 1915. Hallmark eventually made the move to manufacture and sell collectable memorabilia including pin-back buttons, most of which revolve around holidays and other special events.

Red capitalized text below an illustration of a green alien-like creature with large feet, large eyes, angry eyebrows, and yellow glasses.  

The big-glasses frog over the bold “FEARLESS LEADER” caption is a tongue-in-cheek praise for whoever’s “in charge.” It’s a mash-up of two pop-culture lines: the sci-fi gag “take me to your leader” (made famous by a 1953 New Yorker cartoon) and “Fearless Leader,” the dictator character from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show (1959–64). Put together, “take me to your fearless leader” took off later as a snarky joke in office talk and on novelty merchandise. The airbrushed blue gradient, chunky halftone dots, and a simple, high-contrast cartoon fit the late-’70s/’80s wave of mass-market novelty buttons designed to be read from a few feet away.

Mr. Button Products, Inc. is an Indiana company that’s been around since 1973. They make custom pin-backs and also sell the tools and parts to create your own. The company also makes button machines, dies, magnets, and other accessories in lots of sizes. The company is a long-running, still-active operation.

Bold, navy text at top and normal navy font below on a sky background.

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Uneven middle text in red and blue text above and below on a white background.

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A white background with black text alongside an illustration of a man holding three flowers and wearing a blue jacket, a red and white striped tie, and green checkered pants.  

"Don't Laugh, Your Daughter Loves Me" is a variant of the phrase teenagers of past scrawled on their old cars that may have needed a few repairs: “Don’t laugh, your daughter may be inside.” Some of the earliest occurrences of the phrase are in newspapers and prints from the 1930s. Though the expression has been more often used in the United States and Canada, it initially became popular in Australia. Its usage is generally meant as a reminder to onlookers that their opinions are of no importance and it is typically directed at those who wish to implement more traditional values onto others.