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Button Cutting Machine or Set-Up, 1919.
This early version has a foot treadle and lacks the water nozzles that later machines had built in to cool the blade and keep down the dust.

Photograph courtesy U. S. Bureau of Fisheries.

<b>Button Cutting Machine or Set-Up</b>, 1919.<br> This early version has a foot treadle and lacks the water nozzles that later machines had built in to cool the blade and keep down the dust.