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The National Pearl Button Museum is a treasure trove of history, science and lore of the humble but necessary pearl button of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This museum tells the story of the people who lived and worked on the Mississippi River, turning out 1.5 billion of these discs a year.
Frances Anderson, a former film school student, gave birth to Pearl Button Anderson on August 30, after she and Soderbergh had an affair while he was in Sydney directing the play Tot Mom.
Born on 6 Jan 1912. Died on 13 Dec 1986. Buried in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
- An Immigrant with An Idea
- Iowa Becomes The "Button Capital"
- Jobs Are Plentiful
- Cheap Labor
- No More Clams
John Boepple was a master craftsman in Hamburg, Germany. He was skilled at making buttons from animal horn and hooves, bone and seashells. John had heard about the fresh-water mussels in the Mississippi River. He was convinced there was a fortune to be earned in making buttons from these shells with their pearl-like inside coating. In 1888 John Boe...
As button manufacturing caught on in Muscatine, business just seemed to slip away from John. Other people took his ideas and made their own fortunes. The craftsman from Hamburg was a good button maker, but not such a good businessman, and his company failed. Meanwhile John Boepple's method for making buttons had been taken up in cities all along th...
Even a fairly simple kind of manufacturing like button making creates many jobs. Clam fishers in small boats dragged sets of hooks along the river bottom where, as the History of Muscatine County (1912) tells us: The fishers then brought in their catch, and the clams were thrown into big pots of boiling water to kill them. Men and women pried the l...
Women held many jobs in button manufacturing, usually the less skilled and lower paying positions. Cutters made an average of $8 to $10 a week, considered fairly good pay at the time. Facers, drillers and packers—all positions filled by women—were paid between $4 and $6 a week. This was also good wages, but the women could not hope to move up to th...
When John Boepple opened his button factory in 1891, there were thousands of mussels bedded in the mud at the bottom of the Mississippi River. The factories cut, polished and sold pearl buttons as fast as the fishers could bring in the shells. By 1900 there were very few clams left "lying with (their) mouths open upstream" to snap up the hooks. But...
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Oct 23, 2015 · For most of its 80-minute length, “The Pearl Button” meditates lyrically on water and its effects on humankind. Then it makes a sharp turn into evoking the horrors of the Pinochet regime, a transition that feels awkward and rather forced, diluting the film’s ultimate impact.
The NPBM preserves and interprets the history of pearl button manufacturing in the United States, focusing on the contribution of the workers, entrepreneurs, and mussels of Muscatine, Iowa.
Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) [1] is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator currently anchoring the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes on CBS News.
