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Beaver Beacon photo gallery190beavermackinac

The Beaver Islander under way, colour photograph

A colour photograph of the ferry Beaver Islander under way on blue water,

Beaver Beacon photo gallery — original for photo 1091 (Beaver Islander). Permalink https://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1091.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A white passenger ferry moves across rippled water, leaving a wake. The vessel has multiple decks, dark window bands, and people visible along the upper deck; its name is painted on the bow-side hull. Behind it is a developed shoreline with trees and houses, two wind turbines, a spherical water tower, and an American flag.

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.

Beaver Beacon (individual photographers credited per image)

900 × 675 px · JPEG · 100 KB

Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

BEAVER ISLANDER

Taken from the record

Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.

The catalogue title identifies the vessel as “Beaver Islander” and dates the photograph November 26, 2005. The image is credited to Beaver Beacon, with individual photographers credited per image; the uploader is listed as South Shore.

Rights and credit

© the individual photographers and/or the Beaver Beacon. The gallery's own footer states, verbatim: "Copyright Note: You must obtain written permission from the copyright holder before using any of these images for any commercial purpose. Contact the Beaver Beacon if you have any questions or need to contact the copyright owner of a specific image." The site footer adds: "© 2002-2010 The Beaver Beacon. All Rights Reserved." No licence, public-domain dedication or terms-of-use page was located anywhere on the gallery; the note above addresses commercial use only and is silent on non-commercial republication, and that silence is recorded as silence rather than read as permission.

Credit this to Beaver Beacon (individual photographers credited per image) when you use it.

Why this archive publishes it. Beaver Beacon site and photo gallery. The gallery's notice conditions COMMERCIAL use on written permission and says nothing about any other use; this archive is non-commercial, so that condition is met. Credit and a link to the photo's own gallery page accompany every item. The gallery is also no longer maintained — its newest upload is dated 2019-05-26 and the site footer stops at 2010 — which is the case for preserving it rather than an argument that its terms lapsed. Removal on request, from the Beacon or from any photographer.

Material goes off the web without anyone deciding that it should: a host lapses, a gallery is retired, a link stops resolving. Holding a copy — with its provenance, its checksum and its holder's terms recorded beside it — is much of why this archive exists. If you are looking for something whose original has since gone, write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com and a full-size copy of what is held here will be sent to you.

Recorded verbatim from the provenance sidecar taken at retrieval — this archive does not restate a holder's terms in its own words, does not add a restriction the holder did not state, and does not abridge one.

Provenance

Held by
Beaver Beacon (individual photographers credited per image)
Collection
Beaver Beacon photo gallery
Date
2005-11-26
Original
https://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/data/511/190BeaverMackinac.jpg
Copy taken
2026-08-03
Title from
an article in this archive
The holder's own catalogue record
cat id511
cat nameBoats, Ferries, and other Ships
date displayNovember 26, 2005
date iso2005-11-26
filename190BeaverMackinac.jpg
filesize display44.7kb, 100.1kb
filesizes bytes45773102502
listing urlhttps://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=511&page=1
original urlhttps://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/data/511/190BeaverMackinac.jpg
permalinkhttps://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1091
photo id1091
ratingNone
thumb urlhttps://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/data/511/thumbs/190BeaverMackinac.jpg
titleBeaver Islander
title displayBeaver Islander
title truncated
uploaderSouth Shore
views6930

The file

Renditions held
RenditionFormatExtentSizeSHA-256
MasterJPEG900 × 675 px100 KB0cf397dac194…

Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.

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Cite this

“The Beaver Islander under way, colour photograph”. 2005-11-26. Beaver Beacon (individual photographers credited per image). Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/190beavermackinac/. copy retrieved 2026-08-03.

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.