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 On 15 March 1944

On 15 March 1944

A common complaint was its weight

constructed from a blue twill fabric shell

or escutcheon

and is “puffed” up for display purposes

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 On 15 March 1944Original 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