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t64 NATNONAN, BUT1ION E{JN,N,ETIN July 1998
When a $50 award was offered to
the club presenting the best
educational exhibit consisting of
three trays of Paris Bac,ks for the
During the middle of the lust centuty, Paris was one of the chief centers in the'v,orld of
the hutton trade, recognized as the.focal point ol the v,orlcl offashion. Paris and its
environs employed more than 20,000 men, women, children and prisoners in the
protltr<tion o.l'huttons. In 1880 it was estimated there v,ere 140 maru(acturers qf
buttons in the Paris vicini4' tompu'ed to 55 in all tf'the U.S.
