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Book Muscatine s Pearl Button Industry

Download or read book Muscatine s Pearl Button Industry written by Melanie K. Alexander and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

Book The Pearl Button Industry in Puerto Rico

Download or read book The Pearl Button Industry in Puerto Rico written by United States. Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pearl Button Industry in Iowa

Download or read book The Pearl Button Industry in Iowa written by O. D. Langstreth and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holograph 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.

Book The Button Industry

Download or read book The Button Industry written by William Unite Jones and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fresh water Pearl Button Industry in Muscatine  Iowa

Download or read book The Fresh water Pearl Button Industry in Muscatine Iowa written by Rebecca Hatfield Meints and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pearl Buttons  Hearings     on H R  7705     Dec  15  16  1919

Download or read book Pearl Buttons Hearings on H R 7705 Dec 15 16 1919 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pearl Buttons

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Pearl Buttons written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Code of Fair Competition for the Fresh Water Pearl Button Manufacturing Industry  as Approved on February 26  1934

Download or read book Code of Fair Competition for the Fresh Water Pearl Button Manufacturing Industry as Approved on February 26 1934 written by United States. National Recovery Administration and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pearl Button Industry of the Mississippi Valley

Download or read book The Pearl Button Industry of the Mississippi Valley written by Jessica Herkowski and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Button Industry

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States Tariff Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book The Button Industry written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of an Investigation of the Pearl Button Industry Along the Wabash River  Between Birmingham Heights  about Eight Miles Above Lafayette and Clinton in Vermillion Co

Download or read book Report of an Investigation of the Pearl Button Industry Along the Wabash River Between Birmingham Heights about Eight Miles Above Lafayette and Clinton in Vermillion Co written by J. T. Scovell and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amendment to Code of Fair Competition for the Fresh Water Pearl Button Manufacturing Industry as Approved on August 20  1934

Download or read book Amendment to Code of Fair Competition for the Fresh Water Pearl Button Manufacturing Industry as Approved on August 20 1934 written by United States. National Recovery Administration and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Puerto Rico

Download or read book Puerto Rico written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prices in the Button Industry

Download or read book Prices in the Button Industry written by John M. Curran and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mississippi River Mussels and the Pearl Button Industry

Download or read book Mississippi River Mussels and the Pearl Button Industry written by Jerry Wala and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Schedule 7

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1929
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1206 pages

Download or read book Schedule 7 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: