H Shutt, Sun Ship: New Favorite Photo ID Badge, c. 1940s painted nesting boxes Boxes and blocks

Boxes and blocks

or a shadow puppet

And then that little pencil drawn pocket and not one but two bows on her bustle skirt

The illustrative surface design

H Shutt, Sun Ship: New Favorite Photo ID Badge, c. 1940s painted nesting boxes Boxes and blocksTo my eye, this one as good as it gets as far an old employee photo ID badges go, between the SUN and SHIP and sunny yellow, and the H SHUTT and large mug shot style numbers and of course the headshot itself. I can't help but to imagine this as just the sort of ID badge that aliens manning a UFO would make for their abductees as they beamed the onto their Sunship! (Shutting in our H Shutt and taking him away!) The Sun Ship here in fact stands for the