Silk

Workers in the silk industry in Japan. From an album created by the Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Workers in the silk industry in Japan. From an album created by the Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Workers in the silk industry in Japan. From an album created by the Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Workers in silk industry in Japan. From an album created by the Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Worker in a silk factory in Japan. From an album created by the Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Silk industry in Japan, pile of silk wads. From an album created by the Allied Reparation Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Silk factory which served as Reparations Mission billets in Liaoyang, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Completed cocoons at Mineral Wells, Texas. This photo was sent to President Harry S. Truman by Ernest M. Mims, Manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Mineral Wells, Texas. The city established a silk harvesting and hosiery manufacturing plant.

Completed silk cocoons on broomweed at Mineral Wells, Texas. When the worms are ready to spin their cocoons, bundles of broomweeds are placed on the trays and the silkworms crawl up into the weeds to spin their cocoons. This photo was sent to President Harry S. Truman by Ernest M. Mims, Manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Mineral Wells, Texas. The city established a silk harvesting and hosiery manufacturing plant.

Silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves at Mineral Wells, Texas. This photo was sent to President Harry S. Truman by Ernest M. Mims, Manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Mineral Wells, Texas. The city established a silk harvesting and hosiery manufacturing plant.