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

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.
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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 women workers at the Dewsbury Depot, sorting used uniforms, etc. for recycling

Photograph of bare land, grazed to the roots, 1945

Photograph of mountainous landscape with sheep scattered in foreground range with trees rising to mountains beyond.

Photograph of Portland (Oregon) Woolen Mill factory floor showing women sewing hems and perhaps embroidering the letters US on blankets made for the US Army during WWI.

Poster, UK, 1940, exhorting civilians to fight damage to woolen garments and textiles, probably to help conserve wool in wartime

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 exhorting growing of lambs for shearling for flying suits, US, WWII

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 wool pressing and branding room with three male workers loading wool into bale press and stencilling the bales

British RAF tunic WWI

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.

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

Photograph of men and women, possibly under guard, packing sacks with wool. German Official Photograph. August 1917. Wool is for delivery to Germany. Note on card: Bufa 4534. Roumania.

Photograph of group of the crew of the USS Guinever on shipboard, before sailing for France, 1917

Photograph of fine, open weave cloth made in Germany of spun paper yarns during or just after WWI

sample of Saxony superfine merino

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

Photograph of scattered bones of sheep over pasture land

Classing sheep in yards

Skein winding, woolen mill, 1918

Keystone stereograph of man sorting wool surrounded by baskets and boxes

One of a series of 1912 photographs of the American Woolen Mill operations in 1912. Series owned by NARA and also by NMAH/Textiles. NARA set mounted to small cards, seen here.