Browse Items (115 total)

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

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

3d_SaxonySuperfineMerinoMCS.jpg
sample of Saxony superfine merino

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

NARA165-WW-273A-083GuinevereSailors.jpg
Photograph of group of the crew of the USS Guinever on shipboard, before sailing for France, 1917

NARA1917WoolRomania165-GB-04534.jpg
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.

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

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.

1B_AWMSaxeBlueRAFtunic3828352.jpg
British RAF tunic WWI

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

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

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

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

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.

NARA1940MothPoster44-pf-171-2016-001-ac.jpg
Poster, UK, 1940, exhorting civilians to fight damage to woolen garments and textiles, probably to help conserve wool in wartime

NARA1918PortlandBlankets165-ww-195C-013.jpg
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.

LOCWhite HouseSheep10788a.jpg

LOC3a47268u_CrimeaWinter.tiff

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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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…

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

NARA1918NYUknittingCourse165-WW-110A-007.jpg
Photograph, NYU knitting course, 1918

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

NARA_MeasuringBoltsArmyCloth165-ww-195A-086.jpg
2 men work at opposite sides of a long table, measuring cloth. Tied bolts in background.

ArmyUniformMfg1942LoC8b00566v.jpg
Male worker bends over cutting table to place pattern pieces and mark the cutting lines of the top layer of cloth for a stack.

CuttingUniforms1942LoC8b00567v.jpg
Workman guides electric knife through stacks of cloth laid out with pattern piece outlines for US Army uniforms
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