The Button Industry
Author | : United States Tariff Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Buttons |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States Tariff Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Buttons |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Melanie K. Alexander |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738550930 |
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.
Author | : John M. Curran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Buttons |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Buttons |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Pearl button industry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. National Recovery Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Button industry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. National Recovery Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Pearl button industry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Louis Newberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Button industry |
ISBN | : 9781878282088 |
Author | : United States. Congress. House Education and Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1166 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Unite Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Button industry |
ISBN | : |