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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