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Rug Hunter recounts perilous journey through Orient rug trade
Chicago businessman C. A. Bigelow returns from an eighteen month Orient voyage for Marshall Field & Company. He traveled 40000 miles by camel donkey and car researching rare rugs, describing dangers from bandits to snakes and scorpions, and noting rug weaving methods in India and Persia including child wives and long labor by women tied to cradle cords.
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C. A. Bigelow
Chicago
United States
Orient
Marshall Field & Company Wholesale
Bigelow
India
Sind
Persia
Sultanbad
Sephah