OLD RAGS INTO NEW CLOTH: SALVAGE IN BRITAIN, APRIL 1942 - Men and women at work in the carbonising shed. The original Ministry of Information captions states that the woman on the right is "feeding the shaker which removes the cotton dust after the carbonisation. Girl on left is packing the shaken rags into a sheet for delivery to the shoddy works. In the background, men are charging the acid container on the carbonising plant with liquid hydrochloric acid." The woman on the left is actually standing in the 'sheet' (a very large sack), as she packs the rags into it

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