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

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LOCShearlingFlightSuit3c39560u.tiff

LOC3a47268u_CrimeaWinter.tiff

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Greek vase painting, Jason and the Golden Fleece

3_WoolAppendixTable NWorldSheepP200.pdf
Table: World Sheep Numbers

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Wool ship Torridon

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Skein winding, woolen mill, 1918

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parti-coloured convict suit

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British RAF tunic WWI

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Header or Logo for FOW

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Rehabilitation of wounded soldiers; New Zealand soldiers learning wool classing, WWI

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Interior Dalgety Wool Store, Geraldton WA; 1917 appraisal

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Etching by Luther Webster, ca. 1893.

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

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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…

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…

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,…

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Standard Uniform Army Fabrics US Army: box of wool samples

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Fragment of officer's tunic collar: 16 Battalion, AIF, Bloody Angle, Gallipoli. Remains of a proper right side Australian officer's tunic collar. Attached to it are a Rising Sun badge and three other badges.

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Wool Standards Box, 1946: US Department of Agriculture. Notice inside the cover of a large box that included Wool Grades 36&44, 56-60 and 64-80. Box top with signed certificate of standards, verifying samples of raw wool.
A sheep’s fleece could be…

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Folder of sample uniform fabrics: War Department, Office of Quartermaster General, Washington D.C. Whether in peace or war, the world’s military forces required cloth of many different weights (tropical, medium, and heavy), types (flannel for…

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Samples from the US Quartermasters ‘Official Standards Box’. The 1926 standards distinguished 12 grades of wool by fiber diameter. By 1968 the U.S. classification had 16 grades, from finer than grade 80s, down to coarser than grade 36. This group of…
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