File:Mattress making, covering the cotton batting with ticking.jpg
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English: Farm women demonstrate how to make a cotton mattress as part of a program to use surplus cotton production by subsidizing the production of mattresses by low-income families. |
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| Date | circa 1940 | |||
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https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/exhibits/show/usda-history-collection/item/1106 Original description: Title: Cotton Mattress Making, p.3 Description: A USDA circular promoting home production of cotton mattresses. Page 3 of 4. Source: Series I, subseries 1, Documentary Files (1914-1939), Box 1.1/8, file "VI B9. Cotton mattress program, Book 1, 1940," USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library. Date: ca. 1940 "Unknown. ca. 1940. “Cotton Mattress Making, p.3.” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. Accessed February 13, 2022, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/1106." |
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