General Chart of Lake Michigan (1903), Nautical Chart, scale 500000.
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A tall, color-printed nautical chart shows a large inland water body surrounded by detailed shorelines. Numerous depth soundings, navigational lines, place labels, compass roses, notes, and tabular information fill the sheet. A title block and decorative emblem appear on the right side.
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NOAA Office of Coast Survey
11,334 × 18,366 px · JPEG · 24.5 MB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
GENERAL CHART OF LAKE MICHIGAN
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 titled “GENERAL CHART OF LAKE MICHIGAN,” produced by the NOAA Office of Coast Survey. Scale: 1:500,000. Held in the NOAA Office of Coast Survey Historical Map & Chart Collection; recorded as public domain.
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Small labels, notes, and tabular entries are not fully legible at this image size.
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
- Named on the record
- NOAA Office of Coast Survey
- Date
- 1903
- Original
- https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/includes/downloadsingle.php?filename=M-3-1903&fileExt=.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-28
- Title from
- an article in this archive
| chart number | LSM |
|---|---|
| edition | 0 |
| filename | M-3-1903 |
| location | MI |
| scale | 500000 |
| title | GENERAL CHART OF LAKE MICHIGAN GENERAL CHART OF LAKE MICHIGAN |
| type | Nautical Chart |
| year | 1903 |
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 11,334 × 18,366 px | 24.5 MB | fa5eb98d25b2… |
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- Written aboutGENERAL CHART OF LAKE MICHIGAN
Cite this
NOAA Office of Coast Survey. “GENERAL CHART OF LAKE MICHIGAN”. 1903. NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/chart/m-3-1903/. copy retrieved 2026-07-28.
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