And Whitey and the most beautiful women in the world oblige by turning out glamor art on the double run since the wartime cry for star photographs has rocketed 100 per cent by actual studio count.

[6]A 1947 profile described Schafer's role as "to photograph hundreds of glamour queens wearing about as much clothes [sic] as normally serves the gun crew on a battleship".

[8] One of Schafer's techniques was the use of "canned sex", a mix of petroleum jelly with "the oil that forms on top of liquid theatrical makeup", which he would put on women's shoulders to reveal "china doll highlights".

[10] In a parody of the Hays Code, Schafer's 1940 photograph Thou Shalt Not depicts a sex worker, dead policeman, and liquor.

[14] He died at Puget Sound Naval Memorial Hospital on August 31, 1951, from injuries caused by a yacht explosion in Bremerton, Washington.