Pearl Button Museum

117 W. 2nd Street
Muscatine, IA, 52761
563-263-1052

URL : http://www.muscatinehistory.org

overview : No city in the country boasted as many button factories as Muscatine Iowa, once known as the 'Pearl Button Capital of the World.'

collections : Pearl Buttons were ordinary...billions of them were used throughout the country. - They were the product of river clams, whose rough brown exterior covered shiny, iridescent treasure that collected naturally in the bend of the Mississippi River.

topics : jewelry, technology, textiles