The Button Industry
Author: United States Tariff Commission
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 132
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Author: United States Tariff Commission
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Melanie K. Alexander
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738550930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mississippi River town of Muscatine produced billions of pearl buttons. By 1905, Muscatine made 37 percent of the world's buttons and earned the title of "Pearl Button Capital of the World." The rise and fall of the pearl button occurred over a period of 75 years. John Frederick Boepple, a German immigrant button maker, launched the industry in 1891. The button and clamming industries started small but quickly overwhelmed the town. Clamming became the Mississippi River's gold rush while large automated factories and shell-cutting shops employed nearly half the local workforce. Entire families--men, women, and children--contributed to the industry, giving weight to the popular local saying "No Muscatine resident can enter Heaven without evidence of previous servitude in the button industry." Although the industry peaked in 1916, several decades passed before the American-made pearl button buckled under the pressure of foreign competition, changing fashion, limited availability of shell, and the development and refinement of plastic buttons.
Author: William Unite Jones
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John M. Curran
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. National Recovery Administration
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: O. D. Langstreth
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Published: 1906
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHolograph manuscript accompanied by illustrations and plates from United States Fish Commission bulletins (1897-1898). Langstreth's manuscript discusses button industry employers and employees; the history of button making; the manufacturing process; types of shells and pearls; manufacturers and inventors of button making machinery; pearl dealers; pearl fishing; and the development of Iowa's pearl button industry.
Author: United States. National Recovery Administration
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Louis Newberger
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781878282088
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