Lex Anteinternet: Poster Saturday; the November 30, 1918 Saturday Evening Post

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Poster Saturday; the November 30, 1918 Saturday Evening Post

Another Leydecker illustration in which all the technical details are correct, but his color is off, way off.

It's really strange. Leydecker obviously studied his topic so as to get material details to the point of high accuracy, including in this illustration the World War One vintage "Pershing Boots" issued to soldiers in Europe. But his colors were almost always wrong for the U.S. Army uniform of World War One and in fact much closer to those for the German uniform.

I wonder why that was?

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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