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Sarawak: a girl spinning cotton into thread. Photograph.

Sarawak: a girl extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin. Photograph.

Women are working at large cotton machines, a child is carrying a basket on his head, and other people are sitting on benches at the side of the room. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

Indian weavers. Gouache drawing.

Sarawak: a girl picking leaves for use as fibres. Photograph.

A cotton factory in which a man is feeding raw cotton into a willowing machine. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.

A woman is working at large rollers winding cotton onto reels. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

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A cotton factory in which a man is feeding raw cotton into a willowing machine. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.

Women are working at large cotton machines, a child is carrying a basket on his head, and other people are sitting on benches at the side of the room. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

Indian weavers. Gouache drawing.

A woman is working at large rollers winding cotton onto reels. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.