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 constructed from a blue twill

constructed from a blue twill fabric shell

likely the size The oilcloth sweatband is retained but worn

or escutcheon

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

A lovely ephemera group

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 constructed from a blue twillOriginal 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