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

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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

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Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-005270 (b&w film neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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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

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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

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