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portada muscatine´s pearl button industry
muscatine´s pearl button industrymuscatine´s pearl button industry
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
127
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.3 x 16.2 x 1.0 cm
Weight
0.32 kg.
ISBN
0738550930
ISBN13
9780738550930
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muscatine´s pearl button industry

Melanie K. Alexander (Author) · Arcadia Publishing (SC) · Paperback

muscatine´s pearl button industry - Alexander, Melanie K.

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Synopsis "muscatine´s pearl button industry"

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.

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