Clam shell gatherers were the front line in the booming pearl button business in 1897. Congress that year approved a favorable tariff law, the Dingley Act, giving American manufacturers an advantage ...

MUSCATINE — Muscatine, a city of 23,888 on the banks of a mighty river in Eastern Iowa, has earned its nickname as the Pearl of the Mississippi. That's thanks to the hard work and entrepreneurship of ...

Discarded pearl shells are made into buttons in Yuwei village, Zhanjiang's Xuwen county, and sold to customers in big cities including Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and even exported overseas to India. Yang ...

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Quincy has always profited from the Mississippi, but never so directly as around 1900. And it all started with the lowly freshwater mussel or clam. In 1897 pearls and things made from pearl shell had ...

The button has long been a favoured, decorative feature in fashion for both men and women, with the pearl button adding exclusivity and desirability to garments for both. John F. Boepple originally ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Diver James Hicks and his six man crew dive for trochus shells on the Great Barrier Reef. The shells ...