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NOAA historical nautical chartslc00143-09-1903-ls

North End of Lake Michigan including the Beaver Island Group

Colored nautical chart with coastlines, soundings, navigation marks, compass roses, and a harbor inset.

North End of Lake Michigan including the Beaver Island Group (1903), Nautical Chart, scale 120000.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A large colored nautical chart shows irregular coastlines, numerous islands, depth soundings, navigation marks, latitude and longitude lines, and plotted routes. Two compass roses and several blocks of printed notes are visible, along with a detailed harbor inset at lower left.

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

11,228 × 7,476 px · JPEG · 54.8 MB

Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP

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 a 1903 nautical chart 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, at a scale of 1:120,000.

Rights and credit

Public domain (NOAA Office of Coast Survey)

Credit this to NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection when you use it.

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Provenance

Held by
NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection
Collection
NOAA historical nautical charts
Date
1903
Original
https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/includes/downloadsingle.php?filename=LC00143_09_1903_LS&fileExt=.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-28
Title from
the holder's own catalogue · as recorded: “NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP”
The holder's own catalogue record
chart numberLS143
edition0
filenameLC00143_09_1903_LS
locationMI
scale120000
titleNORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP
typeNautical Chart
year1903

The file

Renditions held
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MasterJPEG11,228 × 7,476 px54.8 MB60774660ef82…

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“NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN INCLUDING THE BEAVER ISLAND GROUP”. 1903. NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/chart/lc00143-09-1903-ls/. copy retrieved 2026-07-28.

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