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Conversion. Hosiery factory. Built to ordnance specifications, this dye padder is used to apply a chemical (permalon) finish on mosquito netting. The permalon stiffens the netting and prevents shrinkage in it. The machine has been installed in an Eastern hosiery mill which is at present forty-percent converted to production of this netting for America's armed forces. Van Raalte Company

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Conversion. Hosiery factory. Built to ordnance specifications, this dye padder is used to apply a chemical (permalon) finish on mosquito netting. The permalon stiffens the netting and prevents shrinkage in it. The machine has been installed in an Eastern hosiery mill which is at present forty-percent converted to production of this netting for America's armed forces. Van Raalte Company

description

Summary

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Annotation on negative.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1827.

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Date

01/01/1942
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Location

new york
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Library of Congress
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