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Sorting Buttons, 1919.
After the buttons were cut and polished, they were sorted by quality and put in 10 gross boxes (168 buttons were a long gross).

Photograph courtesy U. S. Bureau of Fisheries.

<b>Sorting Buttons</b>, 1919.<br> After the buttons were cut and polished, they were sorted by quality and put in 10 gross boxes (168 buttons were a long gross).