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FMIB 38854 Glimpse of the Mussel Business at Leclaire, Iowa, where the mussels are bought from the fishermen, cleaned, and the shells sent.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38856 Steam Dredge, specially constructed for the Mussel Fishery, Muscatine, Iowa.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38857 Pocketbook Clam (Lampsilis ventricosus).jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38858 Pocketbook Clam (Lampsilis copax).jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38859 Samples of undersized mussel shells used in button making.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38861 Quadrula ebena.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38862 Tongs and rake used in mussel fishery of Mississippi River.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38863 Interior of Button Factory Sawing the rough blanks.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38864 Mussel Fishing Through the Ice, Winter of 1898-99, Mississippi River near Leclaire, Iowa.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38865 Mussel Fishing through the Ice near Princeton, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, Winter of 1898-99.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38866 House-Boat Used in Mussel Fishery of Mississippi Occupied by Fisherman and his Family.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38867 Alutera monoceros (Osbeck).jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38868 Loading Mussels on Scows at Leclaire, Iowa, for Transportation to Muscatine.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38869 Yellow Sand Shell or Yellow-Back (Lampsilis anodontoides) First figure a male, second a female Black Sand Shell (Lampsilis.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38870 Large 'Deerhorn' (Tritgonia verrucosa) from which Twenty-Eight Rough Blanks Have Been Cut.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38871 Shellfish.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38872 Interior of Button Factory Sorting the buttons, sewing them on cards, and packing in boxes.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38874 Mussel Fishing Through the Ice, Winter of 1898-99, Mississippi River near Leclaire, Iowa.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38875 Musket (Lampsilis ligamentinus) Outside and inside views Slough Sand Shell (Lampsilis fallaciosus).jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38878 Button Factory, Muscatine, Iowa.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38879 Parra's 'Lija barbuda,' from Havana.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38880 Mussel Fishing through the Ice near Princeton, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, Winter of 1898-99.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38881 Bullhead (Pleurobema aesopus) Warty-Back (Quadrula pustulosa) Butterfly (Plagiola securis) Outside and inside views.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38882 Crowfood dredge or grapple, showing mussels attached to the hooks.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38884 Interior of Button Factory Drilling Holes in the Buttons.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38885 Deerhorn or Buckhorn (Tritigonia verrucosa) Upper figure Hatchet-Back or Hackle-Back (Symphynota complanatu) Lower figure.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38886 Scow, with Dredge and Windlass, Employed in Mussel Fishery of Mississippi River.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38887 Cooking Mussels to Remove the Meats Shore of the Mississippi in Midwinter.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38890 Interior of Button Factory Grinding the Blanks.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38855 Lampsilis luteolus Lam Female Shell produced at posterior base.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38860 Unio gibbosus Barnes A species in which the male and female shells are alike This has young filling the outer gills only.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38873 Diagram showing poistion of Unio plowing its way through the bo5ttom of a river.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38876 Unio ventricosus Barnes Showing rest periods This specimen was collected in its eighth year.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38877 Quadrula ebena Lea Niggerhead of the button manufacturers Young shell taken in its tenth year This has young in all four leaves.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38888 Lampsilis luteolus Lam Male Shell not produced at posterior base.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38889 Anatomy of female Lampsilis luteolus.jpeg - BMacZeroBot

FMIB 38883 Sigmistes caulias Rutter.jpeg - BMacZeroBot