440
440
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(MILITARY—WORLD WAR II.)
African American sailor’s embroidered
silk souvenir of Pacific campaign.
Elaborately embroidered silk, 15
3
⁄
4
x 19
3
⁄
4
inches with
soldier’s photograph in the center, within an embroidered life-preserver, draped with flags;
the American Eagle flying above; in a period frame.
[Japan, circa 1945]
[1,000/1,500]
One of the best we’ve ever seen of this sort of silk embroidered work, common to occupied Japan
WWII and later Viet Nam.
439
●
(MILITARY—WORLD WAR II.)
United We Stand for God and Country.
Cloth souvenir of training camp, 17 x 16 inches, with a photographic transfer of a black
infantryman holding his rifle within an 8 x 5
1
⁄
2
inch “frame” in the center; around him are
various patriotic scenes: the Statue of Liberty etc..
Np, circa 1943
[600/800]
A highly unusual photographic transfer of a black soldier printed on a piece of cotton. Things
like this were available to soldiers and sailors at the various training camps. One would have
their picture taken and then it could be applied to a number of different things that could be
sent home to one’s wife and family or a girl friend.
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