Black text on football illustration.

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Illustration of a red apple on a white background surrounded with black text.

Most likely manufactured in the 1960s, this particular button is a souvenir from the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival, a celebration that is held annually in Winchester, Virginia. The first Apple Blossom Festival was held on May 3rd, 1924, and it celebrated the coronation of Elizabeth Steck, a Winchester resident who had the pleasure of assuming the title of 'Queen Shenandoah I'. Since then, eighty two queens have reigned over the festival. The extravaganza continues to be a source of civic and local pride as residents celebrated the festival's 89th anniversary in 2013.

Orange button with black text and an image of a grey haired man in the center.

The Antique Engine and Tractor Association promotes the hobby of collecting and restoring tractors.

This button shows the image of Lester L. Roos (1900-1983). Loos worked in the tractor industry for decades: selling them, building engines and later re-producing Stover engines and reselling parts for the antique tractor hobbyists.

Color photograph of three astronuats in spacesuits without helmets on moon background, red top edge border and blue bottom edge border with white lettering. Spacecraft name is shown in red, astronauts' names in blue below the photograph.

On July 19, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the Apollo XI lunar module while fellow astronaut Michael Collins remained on the spacecraft checking for any visual problems with the lunar module. He saw none and told the Eagle crew (Armstrong & Aldrin), "You cats take it easy on the lunar surface." At 10:28 p.m. EDT, Neil Armstrong turned on the video cameras that transmitted images from the moon to over a half billion people's television sets on Earth.

Apollo XI was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body. Apollo 11 achieved its primary mission - to perform a manned lunar landing and return the mission safely to Earth - and paved the way for the Apollo lunar landing missions to follow.

Blue text on mustard-orange background. Illustration of a blue and orange pennant flag with white "W" on it.

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Black text on blue and yellow bi-colored flag that is imposed over a black illustration of Independence Hall on white background. 

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.

The button at the center of a beige daisy cut-out has black text on a white background and is surrounded by a grey metal border. 

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Black background with white horizontal band and black Zorro logo centered.

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.

Black text on the top and bottom edge of button. Red text in the middle on white background.

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.

Purple lips with fangs top a stylized logo in white block text over a purple diamond-shape with a black background.

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