Salvage. Wool reclamation. A battery of rag-picking machines in an Eastern wool-reclaiming plant. These machines shred woolen rags to break them down into wool fiber, which is then mixed with virgin wool. The resulting mixture will be spun into yarns from which new woolen fabrics will be woven
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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safety film negatives
wool
reclamation
wool reclamation
battery
machines
eastern
plant
rags
fiber
wool fiber
mixture
yarns
fabrics
united states history
library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Gruber, Edward, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain