In the great spinning room - 104,000 spindles - Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosevelt, Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C.

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosevelt, Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C.

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosevelt, Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C.

Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosevelt, Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C.

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

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

Crude makers of beautiful goods; making the famous inlaid pearl work, Damascus, Syria