Photograph
Women Using Loom
![Women Using Loom Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt during her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). In her journal from Ceylon she records: "The women braid the fibres together making a crude mat of them. The trunks of the trees are set up in the form of a house and these mats are hung up to make the walls."](http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700014100001/1410000008-l.jpg)
Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt during her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). In her journal from Ceylon she records: "The women braid the fibres together making a crude mat of them. The trunks of the trees are set up in the form of a house and these mats are hung up to make the walls." |
Image ID: | 110476 |
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Creation Date: | circa 1910 |
Creator Name: | Unknown |
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Collection Name: | Carrie Chapman Catt diaries and photographs, 1911-1912 |
Genre: | Photograph |
Original Format Type: | lantern slide |
Original Format Number: | PH 4089.1.008 |
Original Dimensions: | 4 x 3 inches |
These lantern slides were either purchased or taken by Carrie Chapman Catt or others in her travel party. Carrie Chapman Catt was a suffragette who traveled to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), South Africa, the Sudan, Java, the Philippines, China, Japan, Korea, Palestine, and India between 1910 and 1912. |
Fences |
Handicraft |
Buildings |
Trees |
Clothing and dress |
Ethnic architecture |
Ladders |
East Indians |
Women |
Outdoor photography |
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Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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