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BoxofUSWoolSamples_QMMuseumwithInner Label and Samples.jpg
Standard Uniform Army Fabrics US Army: box of wool samples

Wanganella wool.jpg
Example of merino wool grown by the Peppin Family in the Wanganella Region of NSW. This family worked hard for decades in the mid to late nineteenth century to breed sheep that were able to survive in Outback Australia whilst also growing the long,…

R6440.19 Photograph - Two Australian Soldiers in the snow.jpg
A black and white photograph featuring two Australian Soldiers in the snow;
From an album owned by Staff Sergeant-Major Arthur George Bennett winter 1916. The man standing on the left is Sergeant-Bennett from the 4th Pioneers.
In training camp in…

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Depicts men sitting and lying around the interior of hut. Photographic negative from an album owned by Gunner Clive Richard Balmer, Australian Imperial Forces, dated 5 June 1917.
Soldiers who are shivering from cold are inefficient fighters. Before…

3k_LOCFemaleWoolSorters3b06802u.tiff
American Woolen Mills, Massachusetts, ca. 1918

2d_HenrySheldonMusMerinoEwes.jpg
Etching by Luther Webster, ca. 1893.

3i_Geraldton1917_slwa_b3727356_2.jpg
Interior Dalgety Wool Store, Geraldton WA; 1917 appraisal

3j_MA_I119769_TePapa_William-Gemmell-and-nineteen_full.jpg
Rehabilitation of wounded soldiers; New Zealand soldiers learning wool classing, WWI

FOW LogoHeader.jpg
Header or Logo for FOW

oldlinc.jpg

Southdowns.jpg

teeswaterold.jpg

500px-Merino_Ram.png

1B_AWMSaxeBlueRAFtunic3828352.jpg
British RAF tunic WWI

1Cconvictyellownla.jpg
parti-coloured convict suit

2A_NARA1918skeinwinding165-ww-195A-020.jpg
Skein winding, woolen mill, 1918

2BsheepMap (0-00-12-12).jpg

2CWoolShipslwa_b3106924_1.jpg
Wool ship Torridon

3_WoolAppendixTable NWorldSheepP200.pdf
Table: World Sheep Numbers

4a_Jason_GoldenFleece_Louvre_K127.jpg
Greek vase painting, Jason and the Golden Fleece

4bTheRoaroftheCotswoldLion_img1.jpg

LOC3a47268u_CrimeaWinter.tiff

LOCShearlingFlightSuit3c39560u.tiff

LOCWhite HouseSheep10788a.jpg

QueenslandMuseumWoolGasMask.jpg
Hypo helmet style wool gas mask of the type used at Gallipoli

NMAH_paperyarnsIMG_0290.JPG
Image of samples from NMAH Consular collection of spun paper yarns and textiles collected in Plauen, Germany in 1907

NMAH_AmWoolCo_190313-003 .tiff
Photograph of men at tables sorting wool, open bale of wool marked Australia in foreground

NMAHWW2Samples2.JPG
Photograph of US Army woolen textile swatches from WWII

NMAHWW2Samples1.JPG
Photograph of swatches of women textiles used by the US Navy in WWII

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Photograph in storage of selection of German made spun paper yarn military equipment, acquired as salvage after WWI by the US Army and later donated to the US National Museum
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