Thursday, July 3, 2025

have lent a beauty and color to ocean-going vessels

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John Everett In years past, we have posted images of and articles about the World War I-era paintings of dazzle-camouflaged ships by British...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

camouflaging ships to look like clouds on the horizon

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WWI ship camouflage painters The Observer in The Milford Cabinet and Wilton Journal (Nashua NH), May 15, 1919, p, 2— …The Observer knows h...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

eyewitness sightings of dazzle camouflaged vessels

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USS George Washington in camouflage (1918) John Johnston [from La Crosse WI] in a letter quoted in JOHNSTON TELLS OF BEING UNDER THE AMERI...
Monday, June 30, 2025

an expert at making black eyes disappear with paint

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Movie poster (1937) SIGN PAINTER AND CAMOUFLAGER OF BLACK EYES DIES in Graham Daily Reporter (Graham TX), January 24, 1936— NEW HAVEN— Jul...

like artists, might poets also qualify as camoufleurs?

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Bewilderness and James Joyce WANT OUR POETS, UNCLE? in S outh Bend News-Times (South Bend IN). August 21, 1917— Uncle Sam is getting up so...

dazzle camouflaged ship used as advertising space

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Above FUNNY BUSINESS cartoon with caption “I think the camouflager sold some advertising space!” by Ralph A. Hershberger , in The Pittsbur...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

comical British camouflaged shooting jackets in 1894

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suggested shooting jackets Above This is a Victorian-era cartoon (most likely British), published in 1894, artist and source publication un...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Charles Hanford applies stagecraft in WWI camouflage

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The American promoter and showman Phineas T. Barnum was born in 1810. He was immensely successful and widely known by 1859, the birth year ...
Monday, June 23, 2025

face camouflage / sidestep the flu by growing a beard

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Above Rex Whistler , comic portrait (repeated five times) of a bearded man whose identity changes when positioned upsidedown (c1930). ••• ...

circumvent the heat by disguising oneself as a julep

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Above Roy R. Behrens, from a series of digital montages, produced during the COVID pandemic. Copyright © the artist. Online here . ••• O. Ha...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

women are expert camoufleurs / it is their middle name

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Cartoon, Fay King 1918 CAMOUFLAGE IS MIDDLE NAME OF WOMAN: EXPERIENCED IN KEEPING WILLIE ‘HALF-FARE’: IF SHE CAN PAINT RED CRAWFISH ON PLATT...

WWI swimsuit camouflage / latest fashion clothing fad

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RELATED LINKS       Dazzle Camouflage: What is it and how did it work? /  Nature, Art, and Camouflage / Art, Women's Rights, and Camou...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

broken figures / the ruling style at present was dazzle

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Cover of Jack London's novel (1902) As we are once again learning at this point in American life, even if something is blatantly false, ...
Friday, June 20, 2025

failed camouflage / wife's hat must not be so employed

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Above This cartoon was published in the Boston Sunday Post on September 23, 1932. The title reads ABRAHAMSON'S CAMOUFLAGE FAILETH wit...
Friday, June 6, 2025

the perils of counterfeiting / a George H. Blair cartoon

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Above This is a camouflage-related cartoon from 1918. It was drawn by George H. Blair , who was a Boston-area newspaper artist and cartooni...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Noel Martin, Ralston Crawford as WWII Camoufleurs

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Noel Martin exhibition poster Canadian-born American artist Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) is usually said to have been a Precisionist , with...