Blue illustration of Andy Gump with white background, blue text and blue and white checkered edge.

The Gumps, created by Sidney Smith, were a popular comic strip about a middle-class family. It ran 42 years in newspapers from 1917 to 1959. Chinless character Andy Gump is seen here saying one of his frequent expressions, "Oh Min", referring to his wife Minerva.

Bold blue lettering on yellow background.

Pro-alcohol button that allows the wearer to "test" anyone's drink.

White text on red background.

This pinback was given out as a premium when a package of Favorite Cigarettes was purchased. The phrase "Nobody loves a fat man" was made popular in 1907 by the Broadway play The Round Up. The slogan became a kind of proverb during the first half of the twentieth century and was used often in advertisements.  

Favorite Cigarettes were first manufactured in 1886 in Richmond, Virginia by the Pace and Sizer Tobacco Company and the ownership of the cigarettes would change multiple times until production was ceased. The company that manufactured this particular pinback, Whitehead and Hoag Co., was one of the largest manufacturers of buttons during the late 19th century.  

Simple black text on white background.

Com-Share was originally founded in 1966 by employees at the University of Michigan. The company initially focused its business on time-sharing, a then-growing concept where several users would remotely share the same mainframe to perform computer tasks. Their proprietary software, Commander II, helped manage users' schedules and processes to prevent system conflicts. In 1968, they took the company public.

Through the 1970s and 80s, Com-Share shifted its focus to data analysis software and found general success in the market. However, much of their software was made for the IBM operating system, which was made largely obsolete to Microsoft Windows in the 1990s. Com-Share is now defunct.

Black text and illustration of a confused baby goat (aka kid) on an orange background.

Maniacal white font on light yellow background with confetti. 

Possibly inspired by the 1983 Flashdance song by the same name performed by Michael Sembello.

White text and music notations on red background.

A good party starting button.

Black text on a white 3-leaf clover with black background.

Penny King gumball machines were small and designed to sit on a countertop. They typically had a body made from cast aluminum and a globe made from glass. For just one cent, they dispensed pin-back buttons as prizes during the mid-twentieth century. Buttons that read “Quit Your Kiddin’,” “Hot Dogs,” and “Let’s Get Acquainted” were just some that could be collected from these machines.

Clovers are a symbol of luck. To get acquainted, is to get to know someone, and in some cases, the term "get lucky" has also been used in conjunction with this phrase.

Yellow flag in the middle of a blue button with all white capital letters above and below the flag.

This button is possibly a promotional item for the Safety Motion Picture 'Knowing's Not Enough' (1956), produced under the direction of the Safety Advisory Committee of the United States Steel Corporation.

Red text on a white heart, solid red color around the edge.

The song Jeepers Creepers was featured in the 1938 film Going Places starring Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Louis Armstrong and Ronald Reagan. Louis Armstrong plays the part of Gabriel, the trainer of a race horse named Jeepers Creepers. Jeepers Creepers is a very wild horse and can only be soothed enough to let someone ride him when Gabriel plays the song "Jeepers Creepers" on his trumpet or sings it to him. Louis Armstrong's character, Gabriel, had written the song specifically for the horse, Jeepers Creepers.

Although the song was written as a romance, it has garnered a reputation for being creepy for its use in the horror film Jeepers Creepers, in which one of the main characters is shown with their eyes taken out while the song is playing.

The famous lyrics of the song are:
"Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?
Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?"