North End of Lake Michigan including the Beaver Island Group (1855), Lake Survey--First Series, scale 120000.
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A large nautical chart on aged paper shows a detailed shoreline, offshore landforms, numerous depth soundings, navigation lines, grid lines, compass roses, notes, and tabular information. The sheet has creases, stains, edge wear, and handwritten markings near the top and lower margin.
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.
NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection
12,672 × 8,664 px · JPEG · 13.5 MB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP Duplicate
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
Catalogued as an 1855 Lake Survey--First Series chart, scale 1:120,000, held by the NOAA Office of Coast Survey Historical Map & Chart Collection. The catalogue identifies the chart as covering the north end of Lake Michigan and the Beaver Island Group. Public domain.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Many small place labels, notes, and tabular entries are too small to read.
Rights and credit
Public domain (NOAA Office of Coast Survey)
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Provenance
- Held by
- NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection
- Collection
- NOAA historical nautical charts
- Date
- 1855
- Original
- https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/includes/downloadsingle.php?filename=LC00010-00-1855WWL&fileExt=.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-28
- Title from
- an article in this archive
| chart number | LS10 |
|---|---|
| edition | 0 |
| filename | LC00010-00-1855WWL |
| location | MI |
| scale | 120000 |
| title | NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP |
| type | Lake Survey--First Series |
| year | 1855 |
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 12,672 × 8,664 px | 13.5 MB | c2f8fe37243b… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
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The archive holds its own copy of that file and will supply it on request; it is not re-served here, because the holder serves it better and a second copy is a second thing to go stale.
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This sheet is published as a IIIF Image API 3.0 Level 0 service: a pre-generated pyramid of static tiles, served as plain files with no image server behind them. The viewer above reads it, and so will any IIIF viewer you point at the service description.
Because it is IIIF rather than a private tile format, tools outside this archive can use it too — including Allmaps, which can georeference a historical sheet from exactly this service and lay it over a modern map.
- Service description (
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In this archive
- Written aboutNorth End of Lake Michigan Including the Beaver Island Group, 1855 Lake Survey chart
- DepictsBeaver Island
- DepictsBeaver Island Harbor Light
- DepictsBeaver Island Light Station
- DepictsGull Island Reef
- DepictsHigh Island
- DepictsSaint James
Cite this
“North End of Lake Michigan Including the Beaver Island Group, 1855 Lake Survey”. 1855. NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/chart/lc00010-00-1855wwl/. copy retrieved 2026-07-28.
Built only from what the archive recorded: the names on the record, the title as recorded, the date if one was recorded, this page, and the date the copy was taken. Nothing is filled in to satisfy a citation style.