Original U.S. WWI Outstanding Hand-Painted Canvas Circus Style “The Great Battlefields of France” Show Displays Painted by Lt. Howard A. Phillips Display Guns & Parts Sets A lovely ephemera group

A lovely ephemera group

Adorned along the tail of the eagle are the words FÜR SCHLESIEN

constructed from a blue twill fabric shell

likely the size The oilcloth sweatband is retained but worn

which is where there was originally an American Spread Eagle escutcheon

Original U.S. WWI Outstanding Hand-Painted Canvas Circus Style “The Great Battlefields of France” Show Displays Painted by Lt. Howard A. Phillips Display Guns & Parts Sets A lovely ephemera groupOriginal Items. One of a Kind Set. This is an extraordinary set of hand painted canvas circus style display boards painted for a homefront show which showed photographs and moving pictures from the Great Battlefields of France and the Americans in Action. These were painted by Lieutenant Howard Allison Phillips of Newark, Ohio, who served in the Quartermaster Corps during the war, and who later in life owned a studio of commercial arts in Elmwood