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OBJECT TYPE: PROPAGANDA
DATE: 1916
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1997.0901.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: RAF/ J. W. Watts
LOCATION: Unknown

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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: 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: 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://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1997.0901.001/

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