Main caption: 'American industries.--Silk culture in Alabama--an enterprise founded and carried on by Colored people at Huntsville.--from a sketch by A. Berghaus.' Caption left: 'Method of feeding the silkworms with mulberry leaves.' Caption right: 'Colored children carding the raw material.' [full date August 17, 1878.]
Caption: 'Main room of the Industrial Academy, in which the various processes for the production of raw silk are conducted.' [full date August 17, 1878.]
Caption: 'First and last review of the First Regiment, South Carolina Negro Volunteers, on Hilton Head, S.C., under Colonel Fessenden, U.S.A., June 25th, 1862.'
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