1935 Print China Farming Silk Worm Labor Burton Holmes Textile Clothing FZ2 Humorous including collage

including collage

This is an original 1929 halftone print of a group of women overlooking the Grand Canyon from Point Sublime

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library houses a restored 1919 Pierce-Arrow automobile

species Cynomys Ludovicianus by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

1935 Print China Farming Silk Worm Labor Burton Holmes Textile Clothing FZ2 Humorous including collageThis is an original 1935 halftone print of two Chinese laborers working for the silk industry. The caption writes, "The women and the aged provide free farm labor." Si Ling Chi (Leizu) was the first Empress of China (2640 BCE), and while observing silkworms in her garden, discovered how to process the thread of the cocoon into a new cloth. Photography by R. Moulin and Burton Holmes. Photography by Burton Holmes and the Silk Association of America.