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In 2008, the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design announced the rediscovery in its collection of 455 lithographic printed plans for the camouflage of US merchant ships during World War I.

These documents were donated to the RISD library in 1919 by one of the school ’ s alumni, designer Maurice L. Freeman, who had been a camouflage artist for the U. S. Shipping Board in Jacksonville, Florida.

Portions of the collection were publicly shown at the RISD library for the first time from January 26 through March 29, 2009, in an exhibition titled " Bedazzled.