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In 1926, Philadelphia hosted a sesquicentennial exposition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  Unfortunately, the exposition was unable to cover costs and went into receivership the following year.

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This button was made for the TV show, Zorro, produced by Walt Disney and aired on ABC from 1957-1959. This show was very popular with children, though it only lasted two years because of a dispute over ownership over Zorro between Disney and ABC.

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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a 1982 film adaption of a musical by the same name. The film starred Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, and also featured Noah Beery, Jr., Jim Nabors, Charles Durning, Dom De Luise, Robert  Mandan, Lois Nettleton, Theresa Merritt, Barry Corbin, Mary Jo Catlett, and Mary Louise Wilson. Durning was nominated an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Parton was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical). Universal Pictures had difficulty advertising the film because the word "whorehouse" was considered obscene in many parts of the US. The film was renamed The Best Little Cathouse in Texas in some print ads, while television ads were banned in some areas. The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas was the most successful movie-musical of the 1980s. It was Dolly Parton's second movie after 9 to 5 in 1980.

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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom was a satirical play by Charles Busch about the lives of two vampires who survived the fall of the biblical town of Sodom. The play premiered at the Limbo Lounge in the East Village of Manhattan in 1984 and moved off broadway in 1985 to the Provincetown Playhouse, where it ran for five years.

This promotional item was designed by B.T. Whitehill

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Up With People is a song-and-dance organization founded in 1965 that provides a "positive voice for young people during a turbulent period in the United States." The group travels and performs internationally and professes utopian ideals. The group headlined four Superbowl halftime shows. Up With People's "The Beat of the Future" was featured as the halftime show during Superbowl XX in 1986.

Critics of the group note government and mega-corporate funding, claiming that the group was propaganda intended to supress the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s. 

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Distributed for the release of the 1922 movie Turn to the Right. The film was released by the Metro Pictures Corporation and directed by Rex Ingram, who is better known for such films as "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and "The Prisoner of Zenda." This movie has been described as a "rural comedy/drama" and a "rural fairy tale" about a landlord trying to evict a widow, a country bumpkin who is actually a financial genius, and the Alger-like country lad who fights against adversity and eventually achieves vindication and success.

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Grandpa Munster was a fictional character (a vampire) in the CBS sitcom The Munsters, originally played by Al Lewis from 1964-1966.  The Munsters was a show about a family of monsters, and was a satire of both monster movies and family-oriented sitcoms being made at the time. 

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Distributed for the release of the 1999 movie The Limey, a crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Lem Dobbs. The plot centers around a British man, recently released from prison, who travels to California to investigate the death of his daughter.