Photograph
Workers Harvesting in Rice Field
| In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long hours for low wages, "bent over and trudging through the mud." Most workers were women who were widowed or never married, some with children. Men without other marketable skills also worked at these plantations. She notes that despite the hard work and restrictive lifestyle, most seemed happy. This hand-colored lantern slide shows workers, primarily women, gathering rice. |
| Image ID: | 111111 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1910 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
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| Collection Name: | Carrie Chapman Catt diaries and photographs, 1911-1912 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | lantern slide |
| Original Format Number: | PH 4089.1.013 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4 x 3 inches |
| These lantern slides were either purchased or taken by Carrie Chapman Catt or others in her travel party. Carrie Chapman Catt was a suffragette who traveled to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), South Africa, the Sudan, Java, the Philippines, China, Japan, Korea, Palestine, and India between 1910 and 1912. |
| Clothing and dress |
| Dresses |
| Hills |
| Croplands |
| Asians |
| Outdoor photography |
| Women |
| Water |
| Agricultural laborers |
| Plants |
| Trees |
| Rice |
| Harvesting |
| Field crops |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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