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Button Factories

  • Cecil Guthrie-- The Pearl button factory in the 1920s.
  • Cecil Guthrie-- Making $4-$7 a week cutting buttons and getting by.
  • Cecil Guthrie-- Health hazards from cutting buttons.
  • Cecil Guthrie-- What made Cecil the best button cutter in the factory.
  • Cecil Guthrie-- Button factory working conditions.
  • Paul Hanks-- Story about a mountain of "creeper" shells.
  • Paul Hanks-- Jobs in the button factory.
  • Paul Hanks-- Picking up, weighing, and hauling shells.
  • Paul Hanks-- Brief description of job with button factory.
  • Paul Hanks-- Salaries in the button factory.
  • Paul Hanks-- Using a shell fork, weighing shells.
  • Paul Hanks-- Cutters paid by weight of blanks.
  • Roy Ottwel-- Pay for button cutting.
  • Roy Ottwel-- Working conditions in the factory.
  • Roy Ottwel-- Description of cutting blanks.
  • Roy Ottwel-- Button factories and selling blanks.
  • Roy Ottwel-- Finishing the blanks into buttons.
  • Al Parry-- Beardstown area button factories.

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