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Pearls on the Mississippi: The Story of the Pearl Button Industry


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Edited by Dean Sessler
Narrators: Max Churchill, Dean Sessler, Martha Tate, Paul Wilts
Photographs: Oscar Grossheim Collection, Musser Public Library, Mike O'Hara, Muscatine Community College
Research Sources: Musser Public Library, Pearl Button Museum, Muscatine Iowa, Iowa Historical Society
Made possible by a grant from the Iowa Humanities Board
Copyright 1994 Muscatine Community College

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