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1. Spinning-Silk Industry, So. Manchester, Conn.

Spinning-Silk Industry, So. Manchester, Conn.

Date:: 1890-1899, 1900-1909, and 1910-1919
Description:: Title and "24 (20136)" on label

2. Weighing and Sorting Raw Silk Skeins, So. Manchester, Conn.

Weighing and Sorting Raw Silk Skeins, So. Manchester, Conn.

Date:: 1890-1899, 1900-1909, and 1910-1919
Description:: Title and "22 (20301)" on label.

3. First Drawing or Straightening of Fibres, So. Manchester, Conn.

First Drawing or Straightening of Fibres, So. Manchester, Conn.

Date:: 1890-1899, 1900-1909, and 1910-1919
Description:: Title and "23 (20312)" on label.

4. Frank Leslie's

Date:: 1878
Description:: 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.]

5. Frank Leslie's

Date:: 1878
Description:: Caption: 'Ruth Lowery, foundress of silk-culture in Alabama.' [full date August 17, 1878.]

6. Frank Leslie's

Date:: 1878
Description:: 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.]

7. Frank Leslie's

Date:: 1878
Description:: Caption: 'Paper cells in which the worm spins its cocoon.' [full date August 17, 1878.]