Moses B. Shantz

Item Name	Booklet - Vegetable Ivory Buttons	Image1 Image2 Image3
Other Owner(s)	Nil
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1911 - Late: 1940
Description	A booklet with a brown cover printed in black. The title us: Vegetable Ivory Buttons. Handwritten at the upper right corner of the fornt cover is: R.S. Oberholtzer. It is printed on glossy paper. The publisher is: M.B. Shantz, Inc., Manufacturers of Fine Buttons, Rochester, N.Y. The author is: Edward Albes of the Pan American Union Staff. The title on the title page is: The Growth of Vegetable Ivory and its Manufacture Into Buttons. Printed on the last page is: Text printed by permission from the Bulletin of the Pan American Union./ Illustrations through the courtesy of American Gentleman Magazine, New York City, Whitehouse, Davis & Co., New York City, and Pan American Union, Washington, D.C./ Rochester Herald Press. Handwritten on the inside front cover is: 3/16/11. There are also a typewritten page headed: List of Berlin Button Boys dated 1926; six copied and typewritten pages headed: The Romance of Vegetable Ivory Buttons; and, a copy of a typewritten list dated March 6, 1940 on "Dominion Button" letterhead and headed: Vegetable Ivory Button Processes with Explanations.
Collection	Doon Heritage Crossroads Contact : 10 Huron Rd. Kitchener 519-748-1914 www.region.waterloo.on.ca/doon
Accession No.	1980.039.004

Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.