The Pearl Button Story
Punched pearl button shells
Clamming Hooks
Clamming Boat
Clamming Operation
Punched Clam Shell
Pearl Button Company
Mississippi River Fuels Iowa Industry
Clamming Boat
Time Frame: Late 1800s
An illustration of a typical boat used for clamming. Clam fishers in small boats dragged sets of hooks along the river bottom to collect the clams. Clamming for button manufacturing was big business in the late 1800s along the Mississippi River.
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