Rainbow Meadow

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Blue background with two black mountains, two white clouds, and a rainbow using red, yellow, green, blue, and purple. A blue lake, with green grass that has yellow flowers growing.

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The rainbow meadow image was created in 1979 by Illuminations, a famous sticker company that tended to design a lot of rainbows, unicorns, and princesses outlined in gold.  Illuminations was founded in the mid-1970s by artists John and Mary Bush and made 200 kinds of stickers during the 1980s sticker craze.

Catalog ID AR0134

World's Greatest Convention City

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Text on Button Chicago The World’s Greatest Convention City; I Will
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Red, white and black text on a city landscape background with a blue banner, and a golden statue of a woman. 

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The 1908 Republican National Convention was held at the Chicago Coliseum. The conference was the fourteenth presidential nominating convention for the Republican party; the purpose was to select the successor of President Theodore Roosevelt and Vice President Charles Fairbanks. The Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio won the nomination of the presidency, and James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York was nominated as Taft's running mate. 

Catalog ID CH0059

Democratic Tradition Gore 2000

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Text on Button 812/2000 and a union tag
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Gore's oval shaped picture is in the middle of the button with "DEMOCRATIC TRADITION GORE 2000" above his head. There are smaller pictures of the three most recent Democratic presidents below him, all inside a red circle . Surrounding them, in the outter blue circle, there are other Democratic presidents. The final outter ring of the button is yellow.

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This pinback button symbolizes the Election of 2000 of Gore vs. Bush. It was also the famous "recount" election where a good amount of the senior population of Palm Beach County, FL misread their ballots thinking they voted for Gore but really voted for Pat Buchanan.

Catalog ID PO0089

Threshing Machine Company Corn Palace

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Text on Button J. I. CASE THRESHING MACHINE CO. CORN PALACE, MITCHELL, S.D.
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Colorful illustration of what looks like a grand castle topped by waving US flags but which is likely the Corn Palace. Bald eagle sits on a white circle with red text in the center of the button listing the company's name, Racine, WIS U.S.A. Red text on white background.

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BASTIAN BROS. CO. MFR;S OF RIBBON METAL AND [union bug] CELLULOID NOVELTIES - ROCHESTER, N.Y.

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The Threshing Machine Co. Corn Palace is located in Mitchell, South Dakota.  The Palace was originally built to boast Mitchell’s thriving agricultural scene and has grown to become a popular tourist destination over the last hundred years. 

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Mitchell Corn Palace. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.cornpalace.org/Information/corn-palace-history.php

Catalog ID AD0085

Submitted to the Fan Museum by mambastein


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