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American Woolen Mills, Massachusetts, ca. 1918

Poster for co-operative work on Homefront to support soldiers at the front

Color poster exhorting Americans to join a sheep club to increase wool supplies.

Photograph of Serbian men posing with sacks of wool they had hidden from the Germans during WWI

Room full of men, one signing enlistment (?) papers, at the German Consulate, NYC, 1914.

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.

Poster of soldier firing gun; heading 26 sheep equip and maintain 1 soldier for a year.

Two soldiers lie dead at a crossroads, winter villages cape in background, signpost above. Soldier in foreground is barefoot.

Photograph of shearer and single, half shorn sheep in profile, in wooden shed with landscape in background

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.

Woman using powered cutting machine to cut stripes of wool bunting for flags

Male worker bends over cutting table to place pattern pieces and mark the cutting lines of the top layer of cloth for a stack.

Workman guides electric knife through stacks of cloth laid out with pattern piece outlines for US Army uniforms

2 women work in room full of bales and containers of rags, sorting by color and type