Author: United States Tariff Commission
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ISBN:
Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Button Industry
Author: United States Tariff Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry
Author: Melanie K. Alexander
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738550930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738550930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.
The Button Industry
Author: William Unite Jones
Publisher:
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Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Prices in the Button Industry
Author: John M. Curran
Publisher:
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Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Button and Buckle Manufacturing Industry. March 1942
Author: United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division
Publisher:
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Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Pearl Button Industry in Puerto Rico
Author: United States. Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions
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Category : Pearl button industry
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pearl button industry
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Code of Fair Competition for the Covered Button Industry as Approved on March 16, 1934
Author: United States. National Recovery Administration
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Category : Button industry
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Button industry
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Pearl Button Industry in Iowa
Author: O. D. Langstreth
Publisher:
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Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buttons
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Code of Fair Competition for the Fresh Water Pearl Button Manufacturing Industry, as Approved on February 26, 1934
Author: United States. National Recovery Administration
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Category : Pearl button industry
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pearl button industry
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Button Industry in the United States
Author: Edward Louis Newberger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878282088
Category : Button industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878282088
Category : Button industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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