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COLLECTION OF 120 PHOTOGRAPHS. AGRICULTURE TEXTILES INDUSTRY TRAVEL TRANSPORT COTTON FLAX COAL MINING RICE TEA COFFEE HEMP SILK OIL WELLS FISH ETC.

1911réf. C98790The Philadelphia Museums 1911. Good. Black and white photographs taken mainly in America South America and Asia China Japan CeylonIndia Singapore with good printed explanatory text on the back of each photo detailing what is depicted in each photo. They measure 8 3/8"" x 6 2/8"" on mounting card measuring 12"" x 9 5/8"". Subjects include Agricultural Farming-7 photos : including stock yard cattle branding and sheep breeds; Mining and Refining-9 photos : including oil wells in Los Angeles graphite and bituminous coal mines miners' village iron furnace and blast furnace & molding floor coal mining Shenandoah PA; Flax-5 photos : harvesting Washington spreading and spinning; Silk-9 photos : feeding silk worms collecting cocoon merchanthand and machine reeling winding hand and machine weaving in Japan and China: Cotton-8 photos : picking gins market export mule spinner and forming sliver inc Cotton Market in Montgomery AL; Other Textiles-9 photos : including cutting jute Kentuckyretting and breaking hempsisal hemp plants in the Bhamas harvesting fretting and breaking hemp wool washing combing and carding and boiling linen; Miscellaneous Industry-9 photos : including tapping a rubber tree in Chiapras camphor log cutting blowing glass rope factory salt evaporation washing gold in B C hauling logs and timber logs; Tea and Coffee-11 photos : the plant and tree picking tea factory drying and packing preparingpan-firing and tea ships-- several in Japan coffee in Brazil; Rice-8: paddy fields transplanting hoeing harvesting separating rounding and cleaning Japan and Ceylon and Louisiana; Miscellaneous Food-18 photos: including cocoanut plantation opening and making oil drying allspice and cod fish tortilla making in Mexicocutting bananas and sugar cane pineapple field in Jamaica pepper vines packing flour wheat bags going to market pulque gatherer making tortillas grain elevators and fruit seller; Miscellaneous Travel and Transport-7 photos : including passenger barrow carts and country roads jinrikshatrekking dry docks and landing jetty landing passengers. Some weart to mounting cardoccasional rubbing scuffing and soiling to mounts occasional edgewear--photos generally very good text also. A rare collection of photographs issued by a museum probably in a small quantity of uncommon and unusual but fascinating subject matter. The Philadelphia Museums, unknown

Burwood Books · Royaume-Uni900,00 £GB≈ 1 079,40 €

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