How Many Sailors Does It Take to Make an American Flag?

In the years during and shortly after World War I, a young commercial photographer named Arthur S. Mole caught the country's patriotic zeal in "living photographs," using people to form his designs. Choreographing thousands of U.S. troops from atop a 70-foot tower, Mole created huge human mosaics: the Statue of Liberty, the U.S. Shield, even a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson.

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