Photograph
Workers in a Tea Field
Carrie Chapman Catt, in her journal from her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), describes the tea plantations: "the little brown women, picking tea, was an introduction to up to date economic problems. They used both hands to gather the young leaves and threw them into baskets . . . The women get 8 cents per day. We learned that poor as are these wages, the workers are frequently punished for some error by cutting them down. The people are reduced to a virtual slavery. Ceylon, like India, lives under the perpetual humiliation of caste and the tea pickers are a very low caste and it is difficult to escape from it." |
Image ID: | 111123 |
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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 4089.1.020 |
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. |
Men |
Outdoor photography |
Portraits, Group |
Women |
Agricultural laborers |
Field crops |
Tea |
Trees |
Clothing and dress |
Hills |
East Indians |
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Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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