Making Shoddy: Women sorting rags, 1942 (Library of Congress)
shoddy; rags
2 women work in room full of bales and containers of rags, sorting by color and type
LOC
1942
Making Shoddy: Men sorting rags for the Red Cross, 1920 (Library of Congress)
shoddy; rags
LOC
ca. 1920
LOC Public domain
Making Shoddy: Rag sorting room, 1942. (Library of Congress)
Manufacturing US Army Uniforms: Cutting fabric stacks with electric knife, 1942 (Library of Congress)
uniforms
Workman guides electric knife through stacks of cloth laid out with pattern piece outlines for US Army uniforms
LOC
1942
Manufacturing US Army uniforms: Placing & Marking Pattern Pieces. 1942. (Library of Congress)
uniforms
Male worker bends over cutting table to place pattern pieces and mark the cutting lines of the top layer of cloth for a stack.
LOC
1942
LOC public domain
Cutting Flag Stripes, 1918, USA (Library of Congress)
flag; wool industry
Woman using powered cutting machine to cut stripes of wool bunting for flags
LOC
ca. 1918
Carting wool bales, New Zealand, 1915 (Library of Congress)
Photograph of wagon loaded with wool bales, pulled by 14 bullocks. Hilly landscape in background, one worker stands at the head of the first team.
LOC
1915
LOC public domain
California shearer, 1895 (Library of Congress)
shearing; wool
Photograph of shearer and single, half shorn sheep in profile, in wooden shed with landscape in background
LOC
1895
LOC public domain
Photograph of dead soldiers at a snowy crossroads. 1944-45. (Library of Congress)
soldiers; winter
Two soldiers lie dead at a crossroads, winter villages cape in background, signpost above. Soldier in foreground is barefoot.
LOC
1944-45
LOC public domain
Original artwork for poster: 26 Sheep to outfit 1 soldier. US ca. 1941. (Library of Congress)
sheep; war
Poster of soldier firing gun; heading 26 sheep equip and maintain 1 soldier for a year.
Library of Congress
ca. 1941
LOC public domain
Poster, French: Le Bon Feu. Fundraising for civilians, ca.1917 (Library of Congress)
civilians
Poster for Le Bon Feu fundraising effort for French civilians suffering from cold and want. Drawing of elderly looking man and woman wrapped in blanket gazing at empty fireplace.
LOC
LOC public domain
Men signing up for the German Army, German Consulate, NYC, 1914 (Library of Congress)
enlistment
Room full of men, one signing enlistment (?) papers, at the German Consulate, NYC, 1914.
LOC
1914
LOC public domain
Serbian men with wool they hid from the Germans during the war, 1919 (Library of Congress)
wool; shortages
Photograph of Serbian men posing with sacks of wool they had hidden from the Germans during WWI
American Red Cross photograph collection
LOC
LOC Red Cross collection public domain
Poster: Join a Sheep Club. 1917-18. US (Library of Congress)
sheep; wool shortage
Color poster exhorting Americans to join a sheep club to increase wool supplies.
Library of Congress
1917-18
LOC public domain
Poster: 20 at home to 1 in the Trenches
war effort
Poster for co-operative work on Homefront to support soldiers at the front
National Industrial Cooperative Movement
Library of Congress
1917-18
LOC public domain
Photograph: Sheep on the White House Lawn, US, 1918
sheep; White House
Library of Congress
1918
public domain
Worker pointing out feature of shearling flying suit, WWII, USA
flying suit
Library of Congress
1941-45
public domain
Women sorting wool, American Wooden Mills, ca. 1918 (Library of Congress)
women workers
American Woolen Mills, Massachusetts, ca. 1918
Library of Congress
ca. 1918