Browse Items (115 total)

NARA1918SortingRoom165-ww-197A-024.jpg
Photograph of group of men with wool sorting bins in front and mountains of raw wool behind. "Industries of War. Manufacturing woolen cloth for government, Steere Mill, Wansjuck Co. Wool sorting room"

NARA1918WoolUnderwearArmy165-ww-229D-007A.jpg
Photograph of man and woman surrounded by knitting machines at Fort Schuyler Knitting Co., Utica, NY, 3 Oct 1918. Manufacturing woolen underwear for the Government.

NARA1918WoundedKnitting28-0875a.gif
Photograph of three soldiers in bed, two knitting with needles and one with another textile tool. Two nurses behind.

NARA1919RedCrossKnitting165-WW-40C-011.jpg
Photograph of counter and room beyond with shelves of wool yarn and finished knitted goods. Sent to War records by Postmaster, Hackensack, 6/6/1919.

NARA1919RIChildrenSewingRedX165-WW-37A-037.jpg
Photograph of group of boys and girls knitting and sewing on sewing machines. Red Cross emblem on wall behind. East Providence, RI. Hoyt Grammar school.

NARA_1918_Display_165-WW-135A-054.jpg
Photograph of display set up to instruct in ways to conserve wool and other textiles for the war effort. October 1918, Connecticut.

LOC20to1Poster3g07846v.jpg
Poster for co-operative work on Homefront to support soldiers at the front

LOC3g07465uSheepClub.tiff
Color poster exhorting Americans to join a sheep club to increase wool supplies.

LoC BalkanWoolSavedFromGermans03686v.jpg
Photograph of Serbian men posing with sacks of wool they had hidden from the Germans during WWI

LoCAtGermanConsulate191417197v.jpg
Room full of men, one signing enlistment (?) papers, at the German Consulate, NYC, 1914.

LOCColdPosterWW1French3f04015v.jpg
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.

WorumboLtr Aug1917.pdf
Letter from Worumbo woolen Co to US National Museum curator F.L. Lewton, August 1917.

IWMDewsburyDepot.jpg
Photograph of women workers at the Dewsbury Depot, sorting used uniforms, etc. for recycling

LOC_26SheepPoster_208-aop-41-43-2013-001_a (1).jpg
Poster of soldier firing gun; heading 26 sheep equip and maintain 1 soldier for a year.

LOC_DeadSoldiers_WW2_28-1471a.gif
Two soldiers lie dead at a crossroads, winter villages cape in background, signpost above. Soldier in foreground is barefoot.

NARAPaintedOnWW2-15.jpg
Soldier and woman in bathing suit walk on the beach. Caption "I'm conserving wool, this bathing suit's painted on."

NMAHRetSolBlanketIMG_0977.JPG
Blanket in grey plaid wool; The Geelong Returned Soldiers & Sailors Woollen Mills. RETSOL RUGS label with sunrise logo and ram with 'Pure Wool' inscription

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Photographs (record shots only, not for print publication) of items from group of yarn skeins in Navy grey and Army khaki; and samples of items to be knitted for the armed forces by civilians: balaclava style hat, scarf, mittens, etc.

NYPL_Emigrants_510d47e1-3149-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg
Illustration of covered wagon with settlers and livestock moving west. USA, mid 19th C.

NYPLStereoMontanaSheep_RF4TRCEGEtkRP120Ae.tiff
Stereo card with photograph depicting Montana sheep ranch

NYPL_UtahNsbHEiVUTiK8QAPHXiG1xgk.tiff
Photograph of wagons and teams loaded with wool in Utah

NYPLSheepSnakeRivIdaho.jpg
Stereo card photograph of sheep at Snake River, Idaho, flat land in foreground, hills in background.

1895CaliforniaShearerLoC3b24562r.jpg
Photograph of shearer and single, half shorn sheep in profile, in wooden shed with landscape in background

1945WallowaGrazing_95-GP-5510-Box0959_055_001_AC.jpg
Photograph of mountainous landscape with sheep scattered in foreground range with trees rising to mountains beyond.

NARAChicagoShepherdesses165-ww-169B-009.jpg
Photograph of sheep being driven along a city street by several young women dressed as shepherdesses. Chicago, 1918.

NARA_1945overgrazing95-GP-0576-Box0109_047_001_AC.jpg
Photograph of bare land, grazed to the roots, 1945

NARA_95-GP-0572-Box0107_033_001_ACWyomingBones1902.jpg
Photograph of scattered bones of sheep over pasture land

LoCNZCartingWoolc1915 22838v.jpg
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.

MassMuseumPressingBales00g01399.jpg
Photograph of wool pressing and branding room with three male workers loading wool into bale press and stencilling the bales

Photograph of men and boys (possibly two of them Asian men) washing wool fleece. Australia. Photo numbered 222. Kerry. Sydney
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