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

Little tea pickers, who sang 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.

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

The most primitive reeling tools for silk thread, Mt. Lebanon, Syria

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

Deadening worms in silk cocoons by steam, Antioch, Syria

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

Making the beautiful inlaid pearlwork of the Orient, Damascus, Syria

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.