Muscatine, Iowa, 1907 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Muscatine, Iowa, 1907 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Muscatine, IA
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Muscatine, Iowa, 1907
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In 1907, Muscatine, Iowa, was a Mississippi River town whose best-known business was the pearl button trade. Factories along the riverfront cut and polished buttons from shell that clammers gathered from boats on the river bottom. The industry had given Muscatine a national reputation for buttons, and mill hands, shell cutters, and the workers who sorted and finished goods made up a large share of the local workforce. Townspeople would have measured their city by the whistles of these factories and by the boats that carried finished buttons and shell out of town, even as the mussel beds that supplied the trade were already being worked hard.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bandholtz, f. j. (frederick j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,179 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Muscatine, IA |
| Reference | IA Muscatine 1907 |
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