Identifier: valentinesmanual15brow (find matches)
Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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inthis country are the Feed a Fighter by Wallace Mor-gan and Henry Raleighs Halt the Hun: their finedraughtsmanship reminds one of Steinlen. Excellentalso is Albert Sterners Over There poster for thenavy, Henry Reuterdahls Help Your Country andW. T. Bendas Stand Behind the Countrys Girlhood,which was drawn for the Y. W. C A. Others worthyof note have been drawn by Adolph Treidler, C. B. Falls,Charles Livingston Bull, and Joseph Pennell. Over theNew York Treasury Building, N. C. Wyeth and HenryReuterdahl painted a decoration for the Third LibertyLoan, a canvas measuring ninety by twenty-five feet.Robert Reid painted a large poster on a Chicago hoard-ing for the Navy League. Eight members of the committee of which Mr. Gibsonis chairman were commissioned captains in the EngineersReserve Corps of the army and they are now in Francedepicting our activities. Ernest Peixotto, Walter En-right, W. J. Aylward, Harry Townsend, Wallace Mor-gan, Walter J. Duncan, Harvey Dunn and Andre Smith (252 )
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OF OLD NEW YORK are the men whom the government has selected to makewhat should prove to be an invaluable historical record. The Camouflage unit of the Corps of Engineers of theNational Army has attracted many artists, and a numberalso have taken up naval camouflage, which in these daysof the submarine is an extremely important study. Inmaking her famous fleet of dummy battleships, Englandsnaval camoufleurs certainly showed great ingenuity.Every regiment has its camouflage squad, and alreadyover five hundred men belonging to this corps are inFrance with our armies. I understand that each regi-ment in each training camp in America has sixteen cam-oufleurs to train other men. In this unit, are artists, ar-chitects, sculptors, scene painters, sign painters, housepainters, carpenters, ornamental iron workers, tinsmiths,plasterers, photographers, stage carpenters and propertymen. Their work in general, the War Department in-forms me, deals with the concealment of gun emplace-ments, trenche

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