Ban Buttons

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Text on Button Ban Buttons
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Black text on yellow background.

Curl Text ©UUU 28 st. Marks PL NYC 10003
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Underground Uplift Unlimited (UUU) was an ephemera shop in the East Village run by Randy Wicker. They created and sold some of the most worn protest buttons of the 60s. 

Catalog ID SR0034

Grand Order of the Button Are You Right

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Text on Button THE HON. GRAND ORDER OF THE BUTTON ARE YOU RIGHT
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Black lettering centered on gold background. Black text on outer rim. 

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Whitehead and Hoag Co. Buttons, Badges, novelties and signs (union bug) Newark, NJ

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"The Honorable Grand Order of the Button are you right" is the name of a pamphlet written by Arthur L.Howe. It was printed in Methuen, Massachusetts in 1918.

Catalog ID SR0033

Yeomen City Of Childhood

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Text on Button YEOMAN CITY OF CHILDHOOD THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
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Blue and white illustration of an administrative building. Blue text on outer border, white background. 

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The American Mutual Life Insurance Company was established on February 25 1897 as the Brotherhood of American Yeoman. In 1932, the fraternal elements of the organization were abandoned and the name changed to the Yeoman Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1938, the company was renamed the American Mutual Life Insurance Company.

In 1925, the society founded a children's home called the Yeoman City of Childhood. In 1941, mismanagement of the home and $80,000 of unaccounted assets caused a company scandal, following which most of board resigned.

Catalog ID IN0084