1937 Print Rayon Factory Textile American Viscose Clothing Cloth Aikins FZ3 XGRA2 This is an original 1897

This is an original 1897 black and white wood engraving of a Japanese mountaineer of Meiji Period Japan using an early version of the tyrolean traverse to cross a gorge

that appears orange in color

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and after a great struggle finally allowed him to pursue a career in art

1937 Print Rayon Factory Textile American Viscose Clothing Cloth Aikins FZ3 XGRA2 This is an original 1897This is an original 1937 halftone print of a worker at the American Viscose Corporation. The caption writes, "Neither seed nor worm nor sheep made rayon but man; and in all the many years that man has woven cloth to put on his back, this is the only major textile fiber his own brain has ever conceived." The American Viscose Corporation was the first rayon factory in the United States and was built in 1910 in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. Photography by