Box 8
Contains 245 Results:
Item 1: A Tray Full of Squirming Worms--the Silent Toilers Who Clothe the Nation in Silk, Japan
Image depicts a tray full of squirming Japanese silkworms. These Japanese white-spinners weighed 0.414 grams when they first hatched. Thirty-four days and ten hours later, when they were ready to spin, they weighed 2,220.99 grams. Caring for the silkworms takes much care and skill. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 2: Feeding Mulberry Leaves to the Voracious Young SIlkworms, Japan
A female worker feeds mulberry leaves to Japanese silkworms. The silkworms are fed these leaves several times a day during their caterpillar stage. The mostly female workers keep the rooms that hold the worms clean, dry and free from draughts. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 3: Silk Worm Cocoons in the Nest, Kirya, Japan., 1904
Image of silkworm cocoons ready for the manufacturer. Silkworms make cocoons on rape-stalks, brush, or straw that have been spread over their bed by a breeder. Seven to nine days after the cocoon has been spun, the cocoons are removed. The best are chosen for breeding and the rest are killed and dried to be wound off or sold. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 4: Deadening Worms in Silk Cocoons by Steam, Antioch
Turkish and Syrian workers at a silk factory in Antioch, Syria are shown deadening worms using steaming trays. During the deadening process, cocoons containing a partially formed chrysalis are placed onto trays and steamed in order to kill the chysalis. In the foreground, a young Turkish boy is seen turning over cocoons to be cooled. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 5: Boiling cocoons to loosen fiber ends in Syria--largest silk reeling plant, Mt. Lebanon
Item 6: Cooling and Drying Silk Cocoons After Deadening Process, Antioch, Syria
Silk workers are seen drying and cooling silk cocoons in a silkworm factory in Antioch, Syria. The children pictured turn and fan the cocoons until they are ready for sorting. Meadstone, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 7: The Pierced Cocoons as They Arrive in Bales--Silk Industry (Spun Silk), So. Manchester, Conn., 1914
Image of bales of pierced cocoons, with some cocoons spilling out onto the floor. Such bales weighed about 400 pounds. Pierced cocoons (cocoons from which moths are permitted to escape) are used in the manufacture of waste silk. Waste silk is not considered as beautiful, strong, or brilliant as reeled silk. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 8: Silk-worms spinning silk
Black-and-white image showing a screen with silkworms spinning silk. Printed on reverse of card: "Souvenir card. Silk Production Exhibit - Hong Kong Section, British Empire Exhibition Wembley, showing methods used on the farms owned by Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung in the New Territory at Kowloon." Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., London. Printed in England. ca. 1924-1925. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 9: Silk Worm Cocoons in Nests--Spinning Finished and Cocoons Ready for Manufacturer, Japan
Image of female workers with silkworm cocoons that have finished spinning and are ready for manufacturer. Workers are seen touching and carrying the trays containing the cocoons. Once spinning is completed, a small number of cocoons will be chosen to hatch into moths, while the rest will be heated and the silk will be reeled off. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 10: Parent moths
Black-and-white image showing silk cocoons on the right and the parent moths on the left and in the center. Printed on reverse of card: "Souvenir card. Silk Production Exhibit - Hong Kong Section, British Empire Exhibition Wembley, showing methods used on the farms owned by Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung in the New Territory at Kowloon." Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., London. Printed in England. ca. 1924- 1925. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.