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.

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

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

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

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