Item specifics
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Condition
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Brand
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Arcadia Publishing
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ISBN
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9780738550930
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Book Title
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Muscatine’s Pearl Button Industry
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Book Series
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Images of America Ser.
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Publisher
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Arcadia Publishing
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Item Length
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9.2 in
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Publication Year
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2007
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Format
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Perfect
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Language
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English
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Illustrator
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Yes
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Item Height
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0.3 in
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Genre
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Travel, Photography, Business & Economics, History
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Topic
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Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), Corporate & Business History
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Item Weight
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0.7 Oz
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Item Width
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6.5 in
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Number of Pages
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128 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN-10
0738550930
ISBN-13
9780738550930
eBay Product ID (ePID)
62399210
Product Key Features
Book Title
Muscatine’s Pearl Button Industry
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), Corporate & Business History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Photography, Business & Economics, History
Book Series
Images of America Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
0.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
The Mississippi River town of Muscatine produced billions of pearl buttons. By 1905, Muscatine made 37 percent of the worlds 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 Rivers gold rush while large automated factories and shell-cutting shops employed nearly half the local workforce. Entire familiesmen, women, and childrencontributed 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 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 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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