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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of two men and two women carrying packs. One of the women and one of the men are squatting on the ground. All four are naked abo... |
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| Description: | 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 ... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | 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 in... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of a kneeling girl on the left who is cutting tea on a wooden board on the ground. A girl and a woman stand working on a woven m... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two women stand while separating rice from the stalks. Two children stand between them to watch. The description on the lower right hand side says: "separa... |
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| Description: | Workers in a field stripping barley grains from the stalks. The workers are all wearing blue clothing, and some are wearing wide-brimmed hats. The bundles ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman squat on a mat on the floor, whipping wool to prepare it for use. They wear white scarves on their heads. The bottom right of the image c... |
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| Description: | A woman sitting on a beach using a loom. In her journals, Carrie often described looms and their use for making cloth for clothes, siding for houses, woven... |
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| Description: | View of the newly constructed trestle bridge outside of Cape Town, South Africa. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | From Carrie's journal from Palestine: "There were many terraced hills, covered with olive orchards. Men, women and children were gathering the olives, clim... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from Japan and South Korea, Carrie describes the process of preparing cotton to be used for yarn or clothing. This image shows three women w... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down aisle of two rows of women workers using looms in a textile factory. A few men stand in the aisle. In her journal from China, Carrie describes th... |
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| Description: | A woman and a man using spinning wheels in a textile factory. In her journal Carrie describes the conditions of these factories in China as crowded and wit... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A girl using a type of spinning wheel. She is wearing a kimono and a head wrapping. |
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| Description: | Women working in a textile factory. They are cleaning or dying material. Carrie describes the work at textile factories in her journal from China as crowde... |
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| Description: | People working in a field. Beside them is a basket full of a type of food. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from Ceylon Carrie records: "Both men and women wear a sort of skirt made of a straight piece of cloth wound around the body." Here, a man i... |
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