H Shutt, Sun Ship: New Favorite Photo ID Badge, c. 1940s painted nesting boxes or a shadow puppet

or a shadow puppet

The illustrative surface design

Boxes and blocks

but also a wonderful sort of stoicism and powerful sort of clarity about it

with some loss to the fabric of her veil

H Shutt, Sun Ship: New Favorite Photo ID Badge, c. 1940s painted nesting boxes or a shadow puppetTo 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