Workers returning from the silk filature, Shanghai, China, ca. 1920-1930

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Title: Workers returning from the silk filature, Shanghai, China, ca. 1920-1930
Published / Created: 1920-1930
Publication Place: Shanghai, China, Asia
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Returning from silk filature, just outside St. John's University, Shanghai Men, women, and children, some carrying baskets, are walking down a road outside the university campus.
The silk cocoons raised by farmers were delivered to a factory, called a filature, where the silk was unwound from the cocoons and the strands collected into skeins.
Extent: 12.5 x 17.5 cm

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Collection Date: 1834-2002
Container / Volume: Box 168 | Folder 2

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