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Button Shells Decorating a Grave.
Grave decoration was one of the uses for waste shells from the button blank factories.

Photograph by Gary Andrashko, Illinois State Museum.

<b>Button Shells Decorating a Grave</b>.<br> Grave decoration was one of the uses for waste shells from the button blank factories.
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