by
Melanie K. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
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...