Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-09-03 15:47:01. Caption as posted: "Today brought visitor Mike Vail and his wife Melissa to the Print Shop Museum to donate a vintage beaver-pelt coat with an interesting history, which Mike shares below: "My father, William Vail, and my grandparents, Harry and Annabelle Vail, lived on the island from 1953-1956. My grandfather was the island doctor and my grandmother was the nurse. As the story goes, the Island was between doctors. My grandfather was interested, as he had very bad asthma and the clean island air appealed to him. However, he said he’d only come if a medical center was built, as there wasn’t one at that point. So"
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Two adults stand indoors, smiling toward the camera, while holding a long brown fur coat on a wooden hanger. The coat has a shaggy texture, darker vertical panels, and fur-trimmed cuffs. A framed object and partial display materials are visible in the background.
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Subjects and keywords
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The archive record identifies the people as Mike Vail and Melissa and states that the coat was donated to the Print Shop Museum in 2019. The posted caption describes it as a vintage beaver-pelt coat with a family history connected to a former island doctor and nurse.
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- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1212328765642077&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
- Copy taken
- 2019-09-03
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| Master | JPEG | 405 × 720 px | 46 KB | 7cb5bce26938… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-09-03 15:47:01”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2019-09-03-1212328765642077/. copy retrieved 2019-09-03.
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