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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2020-10-21-1591011547773795

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2020-10-21 01:32:32

Photograph of freestanding historical exhibit banners arranged inside a wood-paneled room.

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2020-10-21 01:32:32. Caption as posted: "WPA & The New Deal banner exhibit."

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Several freestanding exhibit banners stand in a wood-paneled room, with historic photographs and blocks of printed text. The nearest banner has a large black-and-white photograph at the top and a long text panel below; additional banners recede into the room. A dark upholstered chair is visible in the foreground.

A model wrote this. It was shown the image and the catalogue record together, and asked to keep them apart — what it saw is here, what the record told it is under "taken from the record" below. It is still wrong often enough to matter, about who is pictured, where, when, and what is happening. Read it as a way to find the image, never as evidence about it. If you can correct it, please do: write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com, or see how corrections work. Someone who recognises a face or a shoreline knows more than the model did.

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Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

Zoltan Sepeshy
Hunting in the Net: Great Lakes Fishermen
A Federal Art Program
The New Deal & WPA Programs on Beaver Island

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Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.

Catalogue caption: “WPA & The New Deal banner exhibit.” Posted by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2020-10-21.

Could not make out

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Most smaller text on the banners is too small to read.

Rights and credit

Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution and a link to the original post.

Credit this to Individual posters, credited per image when you use it.

Why this archive publishes it. Public Facebook groups and pages run by island organisations and residents. Each item credits the poster by name and links to the original post. Removal on request.

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Individual posters, credited per image
Collection
Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1591011547773795&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
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2020-10-21
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MasterJPEG2,000 × 1,500 px266 KBc602a21faf0b…

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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2020-10-21 01:32:32”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2020-10-21-1591011547773795/. copy retrieved 2020-10-21.

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