Perrin Cooper & Company, Tianjin, China : Chinese workers sorting cotton
- Title:
- Perrin Cooper & Company, Tianjin, China : Chinese workers sorting cotton
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1930
- ID Number:
- 0000-1311-2
- Collection Number:
- 6524/002 P
- Athm Number:
- 0000.1311.2
- File Name:
- 0000-1311-2.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Textile factories
Women employees
Weaving
Textile Industry
Women textile workers
Denim - Measurement:
- 20 x 15 (centimeters, width x height)
- Description:
- Chinese workers of varying ages sorting cotton in the interior of a warehouse or factory in an unknown location but possibly Tientsin (now known as Tianjin), China. Wrapped bales are stacked at the rear of the room, and natural light enters from the left side. Some of the workers are seated on the floor with baskets of cotton in front of them; others stand at the rear along with an unknown man in a light-colored suit and hat. He may be a representative of Perrin Cooper & Co., which was a British cotton exporter in Tientsin. Piles of sorted cotton, either in baskets or on the floor, are abundant.
- Notes:
- Bound in album with the following on the cover: "Perrin Cooper & Co., Tientsin, China Represented by McFadden Sands & Co., Boston Philadelphia New Bedford [Mass.]."
- Cite As:
- ATHM Textile Industry Photographs. 6524/002 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- ATHM Textile Industry Photographs
- Box:
- 37
- Folder:
- 8
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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