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Primary Sources and Picture Books: Dazzle Ships by Chris Barton

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This album contains primary sources to use in conjunction with the picture book Dazzle Ships by Chris Barton.

ARGUS

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Summary: Photograph shows the British aircraft carrier ship, the HMS Argus painted in dazzle camouflage. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)
Contributor Names: Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
Notes: -  Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
-  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 29186 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.29186

MAURETANIA

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Contributor Names: Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [1918 December 2 (date created or later published by Bain)]
Notes: -  Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
-  Date from related image: LC-B2-4774-1.
-  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 27960 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.27960

Invest in the victory liberty loan they kept the sea lanes open / / L.A. Shafer.

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Summary: Submarine and two ships at sea.
Contributor Names: Shafer, L. A. (Leon Alaric), 1866-, artist
Created / Published: N.Y. : The W.F. Powers Co. Litho., [1919]
Subject Headings: -  World War, 1914-1918--Camouflage
-  World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States
-  War bonds & funds--1910-1920
Notes: -  Promotional goal: U.S. J8. 1918?
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: cph 3g02004 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g02004
cph 3a42478 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a42478

MAURETANIA

Reference note

Contributor Names: Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [1918 December 2 (date created or later published by Bain)]
Notes: -  Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
-  Title from related image: LC-B2-4774-1.
-  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 27963 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.27963

S.S. Mauretania

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Contributor Names: Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
Created / Published: c[1908]
Subject Headings: -  Mauretania (Ocean liner)
-  Ocean liners.
Notes: -  Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022473.
-  Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: det 4a15978 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a15978

Albuquerque morning journal., August 25, 1918, CITY EDITION, Page SIX

The Daily Ardmoreite., January 04, 1918

The Sun., January 19, 1919 (New York, New York)

Richmond times-dispatch., September 14, 1919 (Richmond, VA)

Camouflage - Experiments - Experimental station for testing camouflage designs.

Camouflage - Ships - Dazzle Painting or Flag for Ships. Models of two ships on same line of direction one plan [sic] and the other dazzled.

Harlequin Freighters

Richmond times-dispatch., January 13, 1919 (Richmond, VA)

Room full of models of camouflaged in different colors to make them hard to see by the Uboats.