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BUTTON, BUTTON WHO'S GOT THE BUTTON?
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Antiques & Collecting Magazine
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June 1, 2008
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- Bassett, B J
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Copyright informationCopyright Lightner Publishing Corporation Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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BUTTON, BUTTON, WHO'S GOT THE BUTTON? In her hometown, Eureka, California, Nova Cramer is affectionately called the "button lady." Surrounded by a room full of treasures, she brings history to life while sharing her knowledge and love of buttons with school children, clubs and organizations, presenting interesting and educational talks on the topic.
Cramer utilizes many visuals in her presentations, much to the delight of the children in the audience. "Oohs" and "aahs" are audible as she holds an old miner's pan from the gold rush days. She explains that the purpose behind the holes in the button of the pan was to allow the smaller stones to fall through while the larger gold pieces ...
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Button, button, she's really got the buttons
Chicago Sun-Times;
January 16, 2000 ;
MITCH BRODER;
674 words
......day in the company of one million buttons. And surprisingly soon, you have one...looking vegetable ivory suspender buttons. We had them made. We provided a card of lion buttons for someone whose husband's name is...
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Buttons
Antiques & Collecting Magazine;
September 1, 2001 ;
Thornton, Zita;
787 words
...BUTTONS HAVE been made from every imaginable material, natural and...silk and a variety of beautiful fabrics. A collection of buttons displays every type of art and craft and reflects all kinds of social history. What we learn from buttons about countries, people, and culture goes far beyond their...
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Beautiful buttons.
Fun For Kidz;
November 1, 2005 ;
Harden, Pam;
353 words
...Buttons aren't just for your shirts, jeans, jackets, and sleeves. They also create great collections. Hunting Buttons When you start to hunt for buttons, put your grandparents and older relatives at the top of your list. They may have hundreds of buttons stored...
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Web: Bring Buttons to Life in Flash 3; Animate Your Rollover Buttons with...
Macworld;
January 1, 1999 ;
Ulrich, Katherine;
787 words
......vector-based animations, designers can create buttons that give users not just rewards but...export your work as a movie. Flash buttons let users control the finished film...specific frame, and switching scenes. But buttons are more than a mechanism for moving...
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BUTTON UP.(a personal account of the first, and many other, activist...
Alternatives Journal;
January 1, 2001 ;
Kennedy, Ryan;
591 words
......like-minded button wearers. The first time I heard the buttons clink on the dance floor sent my heart swooning...Exercise your Right to Arm Bears. Friends would give me buttons. I would trade for buttons: Honourary Lesbian, Mutants for Nuclear Energy, and...
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COLLECTOR FINDS HERSELF ATTACHED TO BUTTONS
Roanoke Times & World News;
February 16, 2007 ;
Donna Alvis-Banks donna.banks@roanoke.com 381-1661;
787 words
......Boyd admits to a love affair with buttons. She makes no bones about the fact...Christiansburg home -- all full of buttons, some sorted, some just gathered in...glass-fronted display cases where special buttons glimmer and glow. So many buttons...
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BUTTON, BUTTON, THEY'VE GOT THE BUTTONS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);
September 14, 1994 ;
EVELYN LAUER, Staff Writer;
787 words
......09-14-1994 BUTTON, BUTTON, THEY'VE GOT THE BUTTONS By EVELYN LAUER, Staff Writer Date...button box or on thrift shop clothing, buttons may well be one of the hottest collectibles...fascination with vintage and newer buttons. "The club was originally founded...
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Pushing the right buttons.(Saturday)
The Washington Times;
April 25, 1998 ;
Geracimos, Ann;
787 words
......vegetables. Each button, or family of buttons, speaks of exotic worlds and events...dozens of plastic netting sheets, buttons aquiver as customers come by and reach out irresistibly to touch. Buttons are totems for some people, purely...
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What to do when someone pushes your buttons
Daily Breeze;
April 1, 2002 ;
Kim Grizzard;
787 words
...What to do when someone pushes your buttons GREENVILLE, N.C. -- It seems odd for...1972. That's when he used the term "buttons" with a woman he was counseling in...Well if you want to let him push your buttons and watch you dance, that's up to...
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18th-century ceramic buttons stolen Collector's items worth $18,000 taken...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
May 17, 1996 ;
JEFF COLE;
377 words
......collection of 18th-century ceramic buttons. Sheriff's investigators are not sure how about two dozen ceramic buttons disappeared from an Ozaukee County home, Detective Jerry Ebert said. The buttons are valued at about $18,000, Ebert...
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TEXT LABELS FOR HYPERTEXT NAVIGATION BUTTONS.
International Journal of Instructional Media;
September 22, 1998 ;
BOLING, ELIZABETH BERISWILL, JOANNE E. XAVER, RICHARD HEBB, CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN, DONALD FRICK, THEODORE;
787 words
......perceive the functions of navigation buttons displaying pictorial information only than of buttons displaying text labels, with or without...number of incorrect responses for buttons with pictorial representations only...
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Cute as a button: raid your button box to transform a few everyday objects...
Country Living;
May 1, 2005 ;
Roehrig, Elizabeth;
293 words
......this project. Here, inexpensive shirt buttons produce a uniform effect, but feel...pattern. Once you've gathered all your buttons, use a strong adhesive to attach them...with a homemade gift tag. Pick out buttons in the recipient's favorite color...
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Sportsman's Days Buttons Round Out Memories
Yakima Herald-Republic;
September 9, 2004 ;
Adriana Janovich;
746 words
......collection. Today, Leslie's collection has grown to 78 buttons, which are sold for a dollar and represent the...she said. She isn't missing any of the keepsake buttons. And she's mounted 54 of her buttons -- pins weren't made in 1970, although the event...
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Breaking buttons leave men hot under the collar
Chicago Sun-Times;
September 14, 1989 ;
Charles Osgood;
480 words
......have been complaining a lot about the buttons on their shirts. For some reason...to recently published reports, the buttons on men's shirts seem to be falling...The big American shirtmakers say the buttons are not self-destructing. There is...
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Buttons provide children with a link to history.(News)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);
December 15, 2006 ;
447 words
......Schoolchildren are leading a massive hunt for buttons of all shapes, sizes and colours for...exhibition of remem-brance. The collected buttons from Newcastle will join millions...across the city have begun collecting buttons as an act of remembrance and have...
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