Circular white pin-back button, with red and blue text. On top: white on small Blue Square, 91. On bottom edge, in blue WE ARE ONE. In center, large red characters, with superimposed union label reading: INT. LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION. UNION MADE. Founded in 1900 The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) organized to protect and promote the rights of workers in the growing women's garment industry. "91" represents the New York City chapter, Local 91, formed by a merger of the Local 41 and Local 50. In the years following World War II, as the number of unionized shops fell and the ethnicity of garment workers changed, efforts were made within the union to support and recruit immigrant garment workers of diverse backgrounds. In 1995 the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated clothing workers union to form UNITE.

Rectangular yellow and blue piin-back button; blue cartoon face with blue text balloon on yellow ground; reads "Hey Brooklyn!! / Remember / To Recycle!"; below in blue text: "Howard Golden, President of Brooklyn / NYC Department of Sanitation, BWPRR." On rim: Weisenbach Specialty Printing 614-464-2223 Voluntary recycling began in New York City in 1989, but was phased in gradually. By 1997 it had been extended to the entire city. The Weisenbach company of Ohio, founded in 1981, specializes in “environmentally preferable” promotional materials. Howard Golden (b. 1925) was Brooklyn Borough President from 1977 -2001. The Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling is part of the City Sanitation Department.

Cast brass badge, decorated in enameled bas-relief; two threaded posts with nuts on back at center and bottom for attachment; on face in central medallion, intertwined monogram: STS; red enameled circle with brass letters "SURFACE. / TRANSPORTATION. SYSTEM."; below in black enamel letters: "3313 / OPERATOR"

STS, Surface Transportation System, represents the Surface Transportation Corporation, a bus-operating subsidiary of the Third Avenue Railway System (TARS). As buses gradually replaced streetcars in the 1940’s TARS operated buses in Manhattan and the Bronx. The Surface Transportation Corporation was dissolved as a corporation in 1956 when the Third Avenue Railway System was sold to New York City Omnibus Corporation.
This badge belonged to a bus driver, likely for display on their uniform cap.

Circular white pin-back button with black line drawing, a caricature of Chinese Communist Party Chairman, Mao Tse Tung (1893-1976). This button, with drawing by David Levine (1926-2009) was issued by the New York Review of Books. Such drawings, on buttons, calendars, T-shirts, etc. are used as gifts to subscribers and sold in the Review’s store.

Circular white pin-back button with black line drawing, a caricature of a sad looking Albert Einstein (1879-1955). This button, with drawing by David Levine (1926-2009) was issued by the New York Review of Books. Such drawings, on buttons, calendars, T-shirts, etc. are used as gifts to subscribers and sold in the Review’s store.

Circular white pin-back button with black line drawing, a caricature of French President Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970). This button, with drawing by David Levine (1926-2009) was issued by the New York Review of Books. Such drawings, on buttons, calendars, T-shirts, etc. are used as gifts to subscribers and sold in the Review’s store.

Circlular white pin-back button with black line drawing, a caricature of President Lyndon B. Johnson. This button, with drawing by David Levine (1926-2009) was issued by the New York Review of Books. Such drawings, on buttons, calendars, T-shirts, etc. are used as gifts to subscribers and sold in the Review’s store.

Pin-back button, red ring around border, white letters on red: "BROOKLYN TASK FORCE AGAINST CRACK BOROUGH PRESIDENT HOWARD GOLDEN, CHAIRMAN." In center, white circle with red stripe through center; in red letters on white: "BROOKLYN / CRACK DOWN ON"; below, white letters on red stripe: "CRACK". There was an epidemic of crack-cocaine use in New York City from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Howard Golden (b.1925) Democrat was Brooklyn Borough President from 1977-2001.

Green and blue pin-backed campaign button with "carter-mondale weiss" in white letters

White pin backed campaign button with HUMPHREY/MUSKIE in blue lettering with blue outline of US