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Title: United States Experimental Silk Culture Station, Piedmont, Calif. [picture]
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890s
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Contributing Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection: Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information: Public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Sericulture was initiated in what is now Piedmont in 1880 by the Ladies Silk Culture Society. Warren B. Ewer, who supervised the venture, is seen with a scope examining coccoons. From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library. Number in collection : 314 / F-1677.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 11 x 13 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt100024js
copl_064
Knowland Neg. 314
Subject: Sericulture - California - Pictorial works
Textile industry - California - Alameda County - Pictorial works
Women - Employment - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
United States Experimental Silk Culture Station (Piedmont, Calif.) - Pictorial works
Ladies Silk Culture Society - Pictorial works
Place: Piedmont (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.

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