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Blue wool blanket, stained and worn. Used by US Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. Francis D. "Mack" McCarroll as a POW in LuftStalag III between 1943 and 1945.,

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

Table: World Sheep Numbers

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…

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 three samples shows the medium grades.

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 three samples shows the coarser, long staple grades. Notice…

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"

Photograph of tables filled with sheep’s fleeces at a wool show room in Sydney, Australia. Wool sales began to move to Australia from England in the later 19th century, when technology such as steam-powered ships and the telegraph enabled more rapid…

Wool ship Torridon

American Woolen Mills, Massachusetts, ca. 1918

Photograph of weave room of the Garfield NJ mill of Forstmann & Huffman Co. Passaic, NJ. No workers visible, looms are stopped but have cloth in place.

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

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…

The stitching here is so even it almost looks like machine work, but is hand sewn. The double-layer, high standing collar protected a soldier from drafts, just as the elbow length cape added protection from wind and weather.

Photograph of woman in white headscarf and smock sorting war relief supplies onto shelves, 1918

Photograph of wagons and teams loaded with wool in Utah

Stereo card with photograph depicting Montana sheep ranch

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

Spinning wool in factory

Photograph of men at tables sorting wool, open bale of wool marked Australia in foreground

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.

Keystone stereograph of man sorting wool surrounded by baskets and boxes

Skein winding, woolen mill, 1918

Classing sheep in yards