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“Pick up your knitting whenever you’re sitting”: Knitting for Victory in WWI and WWII (15 October 2020)
WWI Red Cross poster encouraging knitting, circa 1917
Cincinnati firemen being taught to knit by members of the American Red Cross, 1918, from the US National Archives
Girls knitting at the Whittier School in Hampton, Virginia, 1918, from the US National Archives
Sheet music, 1918, from the US National Archives
WWI regulation sleeveless sweater vest, from worldwarknits.com
WWII knitting poster
WWII knitting poster
Students knitting at Emerson elementary school, 1944
WWII knit helmets
WWII knit sweater vests, sweaters, and cardigans
Women’s Land Army sweater pattern and another page, from Beehive’s “Service Woollies”
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