Photograph, "Boiling Cocoons and Reeling Silk--Japan", 1915. Illustrates interior of modernized Japanese filature; female workers in traditional Japanese dress working at basins of cocoons with mechanized reelers overhead. Keystone View Co. One of 46 photographic reproductions of views illustrating sericulture in Japan and silk manufacture in the Cheney Brothers factory in South Manchester, Connecticut. Donated by Cheney Brothers in 1915 for use in the National Museum's Textile Hall. With caption, 12" x 10".