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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.
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Title

 Sorting rags, c.1920


Creator

 Voorn, H. (auteur/author), Vlaanderen, André (illustrator)


Year

 1985


Type

 illustratie, illustration


Related term

 papiermaken, papierstof, lompen


Period

 20e eeuw


Classification

 B: Schriftdragers, inkt


Content

 Sorting and cutting rags in a rag shed. Usually this work was done by women and girls. To the right the rags are still in bales, the way they were delivered at the mill. They were sorted above a sieve bin, where the women stripped them of buttons, hooks and eyes, zippers, etc. To cut them. the rags were hauled along an upstanding knife.


@description

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


@reproduction

 VNP (Vereniging van Nederlandse Papier- en Kartonfabrieken), Hoofddorp