amaranthblossom Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 heyo, sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I figure I should ask here first. The person who I consider my 'brother from another mother" is about to get his Eagle. And he requested that I do a painting with the theme "Ever Vigilant" to commemorate this. For this, I decided on a Scout standing guard in front of a fortress-type building. I need a photo of a WW2 or WW1 era BSA uniform so I can complete this. google images didn't help so I'm hoping here someone can show me. thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeptic Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Try searching for "vintage" boy scout uniforms. There are hundreds of images on the web. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCEagle72 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 If you look at the Scouter dot Com group on Facebook, there is an excellent example: Basically the same uniform worn until 1972 - except with a campaign hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle92 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 NARA.gov has some good WWII photos. Also checkout state archives. Doing a project last year, I foudn some cool photos from 1907 all the way to today in a variety of online sources. Found pics of Lindbergh, Pres. Ford, and other photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bando Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 This is about as good as it gets for that picture: http://www.shorpy.com/node/2797 HUGE high-resolution version is there, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clemlaw Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Also, Google Books ( http://books.google.com ) has Boys Life magazine going back to the beginning of time. (They also have Scouting magazine, but I don't know how far back that goes.) I believe they're also linked from the Boys Life site. Browsing a few issues from the era in question will probably give you lots of ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emb021 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 also, Rockwell's paintings ran from 1925-76, should should be useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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