The Latest In Eye Shields - For Desert Warfare
Photograph
Office of War Information
American, 1942–1945
Unidentified
Maker
The Latest In Eye Shields - For Desert Warfare
March 1943
Gelatin silver print
24.2 x 19.5 cm.
Purchase with funds from the Charina Foundation
Inscriptions print verso-(mimeographed) "The Latest In Eye Shields -- For Desert
Warfare" "D-9318 A shortage of non-inflamable celluloid has prompted
the Union of South Africa government to utilize old photographic
neagtives to make eye shields needed for use in desert warfare. The
original images in the shield can be seen by turning the picture
upside down. The emulsion is washed off the negative to make the
shields transparent. More than a million of such shields have been
produced to protect United Nations soldiers' eyes from wind, ..."
Warfare" "D-9318 A shortage of non-inflamable celluloid has prompted
the Union of South Africa government to utilize old photographic
neagtives to make eye shields needed for use in desert warfare. The
original images in the shield can be seen by turning the picture
upside down. The emulsion is washed off the negative to make the
shields transparent. More than a million of such shields have been
produced to protect United Nations soldiers' eyes from wind, ..."
