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Here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and our thoughts about what they are and mean. Pinback buttons like this, adorned with ribbons and football charms, were ...

If you ever find yourself strolling down Armitage Avenue, you may encounter a friendly beaver on a three-foot wide baby blue button, greeting you with a simple “Hello!” The button marks the entrance ...

A circular pinback button with an image of American jockey Willie Simms. The button has a white background with black type above the image of Simms that reads: [SIMS, (sic) CELEBRATED AMERICAN JOCKEY.

CHICAGO — Long before tweets, the best way to deliver a pithy punch line was to say it with a button. “We Want Beer,” demands a Prohibition-era button. “Can the Can’t,” commands one from World War I. ...