Tuesday, July 21, 2020

1918 pandemic spitting image | deja flu all over again

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Above A poster issued by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (Philadelphia), as a means of controlling the sprea...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Camilla Wilkinson article on WWI dazzle camouflage

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HMS Osterley (c1918) Above Near the end of World War I, British ship camouflage (called " dazzle painting ") increasingly ...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Camoufleurs Maurice L. Freedman & Frank B. Masters

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Launching of SS Everglades at Tampa FL, 1918 (AI digital color) The United States entered World War I, on the side of the Allies, in 19...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Don Jules Camou | Ye Olde Checkerboard Technique

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Full-page article on Don Jules Camou (1932) Five years ago, I ran across a news article that claimed that modern camouflage was originat...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Seven to seventy | Edward Simmons looking back

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Edward Simmons, Girl Reading (1893) Edward Simmons , From Seven to Seventy: Memories of a Painter and a Yankee . New York: Harpers, 192...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

There is much more to know about Walt McDougall

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Everglades Poster (©2018) Roy R. Behrens American cartoonist Walt McDougall (1858-1938) was the subject of the previous post , in which ...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

The wizard of oz becomes schooled on camouflage

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Walt McDougall (1904), Land of Oz comic page There is no denying that American artist Walt McDougall (1858-1938) was an extraordinary c...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Earl B. Wooden | Hollywood designer and camoufleur

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Earl B. Wooden (1893-1952) was a Kansas-born scenic film designer, who (as a "set decorator" and "set dresser") produ...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

Dustin Keller | Camouflaged household appliances

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Dustin Keller / Lozenge camouflage toaster Ala serendipity, we've run across an online site called Keller's Blog on which a C...
Monday, June 15, 2020

hidden moonshine | teddy bear stomachs suspected

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Camouflaged intoxicants CAMOUFLAGE LIQUOR TO SOLDIERS AROUSES JUDGE in Boston Globe (April 14, 1918), p. 16— NEW YORK—Discovery of cam...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

hocus pocus, thimblerig, supercherie, and cozenage

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Above Poster for Charlie Chaplin film, Shoulder Arms (1918), in which his character wanders behind enemy lines disguised as a tree trun...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Art | an illusion of reality that tells the truth by fibbing

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Leon Dabo (1909) Above Portrait photograph of Leon Dabo by Emil O. Hoppé (1909). Public domain. ••• Rollin Lynde Hartt , CAMOUFLAGE in...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

As human folly brings about yet another catastrophe

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Above Cover of Ballast Quarterly Review . Vol 8 No 1 (Autumn 1992), featuring a wood engraving by British printmaker Robert Gibbings , t...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Paul Bartlett and the American Camouflage Division

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Above Paul Wayland Bartlett in 1918 in Washington DC. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Digital coloring. ••• In a blog p...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Veteran camoufleur sought for bootlegging expertise

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Above Prohibition agents with a confiscated moonshine still. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. ••• CAMOUFLAGE USED TO COV...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Olivette's mysteries | To be clasped to Flanders mud

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The Mysterious Olivette (1918) Above A photograph (with digital coloring) of The Mysterious Olivette, shown “dancing the Diablo Tarante...

The Bystander | Disguised to look like nothing at all

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Above Rawley [or Hawley] Morgan, "Our Involuntary Disguises" cartoon in The Bystander , March 20, 1918, p. 613. ••• Anon, H...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Thelma Cudlipp's satirical view of camouflage corps

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American Women's Camouflage Corps (1918) Above One of various US government photographs from World War I of the American Women’...