Top Level : Harvesting : Mussels : Shell Buttons

Mother of Pearl Buttons cut from fresh-water mussel shells. Natural color and smoked buttons are shown.
Jake Wolf Fish Hatchery exhibit, Topeka, Illinois.
Gift of Ruby Montgerard.

Photograph by Gary Andrashko, Illinois State Museum.

<b>Mother of Pearl Buttons</b> cut from fresh-water mussel shells. Natural color and smoked buttons are shown. <br>Jake Wolf Fish Hatchery exhibit, Topeka, Illinois. <br>Gift of Ruby Montgerard.