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Salvage. Wool reclamation. Bales of wool rags, from which the wool is to be reclaimed, come in bales to an Eastern plant from dealers everywhere. Taken from the bales and thrown into this pile, they are passed to rag-picking machines which shred the fabrics as the first step in the reclamation proce
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Salvage. Wool reclamation. Bales of wool rags, from which the wool is to be reclaimed, come in bales to an Eastern plant from dealers everywhere. Taken from the bales and thrown into this pile, they are passed to rag-picking machines which shred the fabrics as the first step in the reclamation proce

Gruber, Edward, United States. Office Of War Information · 1942-01-01 · photo, print, drawing

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Credit lineSalvage. Wool reclamation. Bales of wool rags, from which the wool is to be reclaimed, come in bales to an Eastern plant from dealers everywhere. Taken from the bales and thrown into this pile, they a. 1942-01-01. Gruber, Edward, United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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