A reason silk stockings became scarce during WWII
During the Second World War, the United States (MIS-X) and British military produced over 3,500,000 silk and tissue paper maps. They were to be used chiefly for escape purposes. The map in this photograph was scanned by Gerald Fecht for The Museum’s Archives from the collection of Valley historian Porky Johnson in 2010. It was tucked into a larger paper map of the 1932 Olympic Games. At first, Jerry assumed that it might have been a tourist souvenier but noting that the usual tourist-stuff was missing investigated its possibility as a military device. (refer to image number 2000.)
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