File:Sheep club2.jpg

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Description

"Join a sheep club Twenty sheep to equip and clothe each soldier / HS." World War I poster from the U.S. Department of Agriculture encouraging children to raise sheep in order to provide wool for the war effort.

Date

1917 or 1918

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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g07465.
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Author

Phila. : Breuker & Kessler, Co.

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The following pages on Schools Wikipedia link to this image (list may be incomplete):

Wool

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Author	Library of Congress
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	1,000 dpi
Vertical resolution	1,000 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
File change date and time	08:53, 24 August 2008
Colour space	Uncalibrated

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