Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Maurice G. Debonnet / account of naval camouflage

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Maurice G. Dubonnet In an earlier but recent blog post, on July 29 , we reprinted a 1918 article on WWI ship camouflage, written by a French...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

you could spot a ship's nationality by her camouflage

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Amco Bulletin (February 1919) CAMOUFLAGE initially published in the Emergency Fleet News , as reprinted in the Amco Bulletin (February 19...

a bowl of grapenuts made to taste just like a steak

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Above World War I camouflaged lorry at Langley Field VA. School of Aerial Photography, c1918. Public domain. ••• As Oscar Wilde famously s...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Barnum's camouflage / the cherry-colored cat flimflam

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Above At our house we live with a totally black cat named Jinks (short for Hijinks surely). But I recall from childhood an earlier black ...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Greenwich Village artists object to phony residents

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Greenwich Village Follies / program cover 1921 ARTISTS WANT GREENWICH VILLAGE PURGED OF ALL BOOTLEGGING CAMOUFLAGE in Fitchburg Sentinel (F...

boot leggings used literally in camouflaging bootleg

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boot leg (1922) BOOTLEGGERS CAMOUFLAGE TALK NO MORE in El Paso Herald (El Paso TX), August 12, 1922, p. 35— It used to be that the bootleg...

camouflaging moonshine color to resemble bourbon

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old bottle found at Gettysburg CAMOUFLAGE ARTIST RUNS AFOUL DRY LAW in The Courier-Jounal (Louisville KY), February 15, 1922, p. 2— Lexing...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

WWII camoufleur as much use as fridge at North Pole

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Above WWI camouflaged-painted tank-like vehicle with rotating turret gun. ••• Hugh B. Cott , “Camouflage” in The Advancement of Science . V...

full-sized battleground dummies of browsing cows

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Above News photograph from the New York Times on September 23, 1917, the year that the US entered the war. The caption reads: “A Pastoral ...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

disruption in nature / camouflage and the bobolink

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Above Bobolink illustration, John Gerrard Keulemans (1876)  ••• Anon, Our Dumb Animals: Magazine of the Massachusetts Society for the Prev...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Maurice G. Debonnet on the use of paint in wartime

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Maurice G. Debonnet, ship camouflage sketches (1918) Maurice G. Debonnet , “Camouflage and the Art of Using Paint in Warfare” (with illustra...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

painted all over in wavy bands, like some masquerade

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unknown WWI ship camouflage (c1918) Albert A. Nothrop [diary of], “Home Via the Canal” in STONE AND WEBSTER JOURNAL (Boston) August 1919, ...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Georgia O'Keeffe / Her Teacher Was a Camoufleur

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Ship Camoufleur Alon Bement Above We have posted at various times about American artist Alon Bement (1876-1954). He taught art education a...