Name: Elaine West photograph appears on West Michigan Carefree Travel cover, 2003
Start: 2003-09
End: 2003-09
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2003-09
Kind: Publication
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communicationtourismpublicationphotography
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

In September 2003, a photograph associated with Beaver Island appeared on the cover of the Western Michigan Tourist Association’s West Michigan Carefree Travel magazine. The Beaver Beacon reported the magazine’s distribution as 100,000 copies. A publisher-originated correction identified Elaine West as the photographer and corrected the publication title from Travel Michigan.

Evidence limits

The held sources establish the correction and the Beacon’s reported distribution figure, but the magazine copy is not held in this project. The exact image, cover date metadata, and wider circulation history remain unverified here.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, September 2003, “Beaver Island on the WMTA Cover.”
Reports that a Beaver Island fall photograph appeared on the cover of the Western Michigan Tourist Association’s West Michigan Carefree Travel magazine, which had a stated distribution of 100,000 copies. The article does not identify the photographer. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, “West Michigan Carefree Travel cover--congrats to Elaine West,” Beaver Island Forum, August 29, 2003.
A post under the Beaver Beacon account corrected an earlier publication error: the photograph was Elaine West’s and appeared in West Michigan Carefree Travel, not Travel Michigan. This publisher-originated correction is strong evidence for the corrected identification, while the magazine copy itself is not held here.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000054

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Beaver Island Archive, “Elaine West photograph appears on West Michigan Carefree Travel cover, 2003”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-west-michigan-carefree-travel-cover-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2003, “Beaver Island on the WMTA Cover.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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