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Start Over Collection Anna Schein, Collector, Feedsack Textile Bag Collection, 1925/1965 Date range 1931

Percy Kent Tint-Sax 100 lb. sack, 1925/1969 Box 1, Folder 5

This is a Percy Kent solid color feedsack with the pattern for a cut-out doily set printed on the back. The front of the feedsack has a printed advertisement stating, "My mama made all these things from cotton bags." Directions for removing the printing ink is also on printed on this sack.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Anna Schein, Collector, Feedsack Textile Bag Collection, 1925/1965
  3. Series 1b. Feedsacks, 1925/1969

Pillsbury's Best paper band label 25 lb. flour sack, 1925/1969 Box 6, Folder 2

This Wertham Industries sack has two paper band labels still fully intact, advertising "[a] full square yard...get this pretty, colorfast fabric for aprons, for curtains, for blouses, for tablecloths, gay material for many household and clothing uses."

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Anna Schein, Collector, Feedsack Textile Bag Collection, 1925/1965
  3. Series 2. Feedsack Textiles, 1925/1969

Print fabric Master Mix paper band label dressgoods chicken feed feedsack, 1925/1969 Box 1, Folder 4

This patterned dressgoods feedsack has a removable paper band label still intact. Paper band labels were made easily removable so it was easier for women to render the sack into a length of fabric.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Anna Schein, Collector, Feedsack Textile Bag Collection, 1925/1965
  3. Series 1b. Feedsacks, 1925/1969

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