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- OBJECT TYPE
- PROPAGANDA
- DATE
- 1916
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0901.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- RAF/ J. W. Watts
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- paper
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 28.2 cm
- Width
- 20.6 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- France
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- July 26, 1916
- Canada
-
James Walter Watts was born in 1893, and worked in the Customs Office before the war. During the war, he was an observer with the RAF and seemed to have belonged to the No. 7 O.S.A., and then might have been a pilot. Typewritten note reads that J.W. Watts picked up the propaganda pamphlet on the Somme battlefield. The note also states that the round hole at the top of the pamphlet was made by shrapnel. - Function
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Propaganda pamphlet dropped over France by Germany to convince the French that their government was committing horrible crimes against Germany while claiming total innocence of doing anything wrong. - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- See digital image
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Yellowed and browned paper with black print
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Archival collection, 1916, Artifact no. 1997.0901, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1997.0901.001/
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