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Workers in a Tea Field
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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."
1910
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Women Using Loom
1910
Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt during her trip to Ceyl...
Two Women with Flowers
1910
Two women surrounded by flowers in the Philippines. They are wearing "voluminous blouses of a sheer material," as Carrie Chapman Catt describes in her journal, which were commonly worn by women at ...
Men watching Cock Fight
1910
In her journal from India, Carrie mentions cock fights, describing them as a "barbaric form of entertainment". Here is shown a group of men watching one such fight. In the background is a Banyan tr...
Woman using Loom
1910
Woman using a loom outdoors. In her journal from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) she records: "The women braid the fibres together making a crude mat of them. The trunks of the trees are set up in the form ...
Workers Planting in Rice Field
1910
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 her trip to China as "not something most wo...
Three Women Gathering Food in Ceylon
1910
Three women standing in a row. Two of the women are carrying food in baskets and pottery on their head. They are unclothed above the waist and wearing cloth tied around their waists as skirts, whic...
