- Dates
- 2017-07-16 – 2017-08-14
- Kind
- Exhibition
- Where
- structure/beaver-island-print-shop
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Historical Society
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- historymilitary-historymuseumspublic-history
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In July 2017, the Beaver Island Historical Society presented a World War I centennial exhibit at the Print Shop and announced a one-night display of Paul Welke’s WWI firearms collection. Other WWI artifacts were scheduled to remain on display for a month.
Evidence limits
The Society’s notice establishes the exhibit and advertised display. It does not provide attendance, a full exhibit inventory, or independent provenance documentation for the loaned objects.
Sources
- Beaver Island Historical Society, “SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE PRINT SHOP...WWI exhibit & Gun Displ,” Beaver Island Forum, July 14, 2017.The Historical Society announced a July 16 evening program at the Print Shop featuring a centennial World War I exhibit and Paul Welke’s collection of WWI rifles and a Hotchkiss machine gun; other artifacts were to remain on display for a month. The notice documents the planned public-history program and lender acknowledgments, not attendance or independent artifact provenance. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t011903
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Historical Society presents a World War I exhibit and firearms display, 2017”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wwi-exhibit-and-firearms-display-2017/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Historical Society, “SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE PRINT SHOP...WWI exhibit & Gun Displ,” Beaver Island Forum, July 14, 2017..
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