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

Yacht Club Of Stone Harbor

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Text on Button YACHT CLUB OF STONE HARBOR
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Black text on gold background. 

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J. Spencer & Co. Badges, Buttons &c. 22 N Sixth St. Philad'a. 

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Located in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, the Stone Harbor Yacht Club was built  in 1911. The Club failed during the Depression but was reorganized as The Yacht Club of Stone Harbor and funded by selling proprietary memberships. The 1911 building is used to this day by members and their guests.  

Catalog ID CL0050

Woodmen Of The World

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Text on Button W.O.W.
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Image of sawed-off tree trunk with four large sawed-off roots in brown on white background with white text.

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The Whitehead & Hoag Co. Newark, New Jersey.  Allied Printing union bug. 

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Woodmen of the World was an insurance company that began during the 1880s.  They would pay the widow of the deceased $100 and provide a memorial stone free of charge if the widow would agree to put the logo of the company on the memorial stone.  Typically the memorial marker was either in the shape of a tree stump or had a carving of a tree stump and included the images of the maul and wedge, the ax, and the Dove of Peace, along with the latin inscription dum tacet clamat (though silent, he speaks). The headstone program was discontinued by the 1920s as it became to expensive to maintain.

The organization began calling itself WoodmenLife in 2015 and there are now more than 900 chapters throughout the United States. They conduct volunteer and charitable activities that benefit individuals and communities. 

Catalog ID CL0019

Wolf Man

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Text on Button WOLF MAN
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Black and white drawing of Wolf Man character appears over a yellow background with overlaid yellow text.

Curl Text Universal Pictures Co. Inc. MFG by Elwar LTD. NYC, NY Printed in U.S.
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Wolf Man was a classic Universal Studios monster movie from 1941 starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man, AKA Lawrence Stewart Talbot. Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot, father of Wolf Man. 

Catalog ID EN0055