Levee Scene on Lower Mississippi River.

No.: 42
Subjects: united states, Industry
Collection: User Contributed (Tadfafty)

The great Carnegie Mills--strikers on the look-out, Homestead, Pa., U.S.A.

Vacuum pan room. Boiling and crystallizing sugar. Each vacuum pan holds 125 barrels of sugar

[View of the old Tribune Building (corner of Spruce Street) and other businesses, New York City, New York]

Filling and sewing bags of granulated sugar, New York

A skillful Arab weaver and his primitive loom weaving the finest of Syrian silk

Experts purchasing silk cacoons [i.e., cocoons], for export to France, Antioch, Syria

Cooling and drying silk cocoons after deadening process, Antioch, Syria

Loosening cocoon fiber and winding on frames, silk mill, Beyrout, Syria

A basket full of wriggling silk worms hungry for the morning meal, Syria

In a Syrian silk plant; examining and weighing raw silk ready for export

Boiling cocoons to loosen fibre ends in Syria's largest silk reeling plant, Mt. Lebanon

Feeding silk-worms their breakfast of mulberry leaves, Mt. Lebanon, Syria

Hatching silk cocoons on mulberry branches (near view), Antioch, Syria