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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2014-12-04-955253494504563

Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2014-12-04 15:51:53

A ferry is moored beside a wooden pier and shed, with people gathered along the waterfront.

Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2014-12-04 15:51:53. Caption as posted: "#throwbackthursday is here! Taken on Beaver Island, we don't know the year it was taken, but has to be on or after 1962!"

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A black-and-white photograph shows a ferry moored beside a wooden pier. A gabled wooden shed stands at the end of the pier, with several people gathered nearby and on the deck. Calm water fills the foreground, and lettering is visible on the ferry and shed.

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.

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Subjects and keywords

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Transcribed from the object itself.

FERRY ISLANDS
BEAVER ISLAND
BRIDGE 101

Taken from the record

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

Posted to the Beaver Island Boat Company Facebook page on 2014-12-04. The accompanying caption says the photograph was taken on Beaver Island, that the year is unknown, and that it was taken in or after 1962.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The lettering on the ferry is small and partially indistinct.

Rights and credit

Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution and a link to the original post.

Credit this to Individual posters, credited per image when you use it.

Why this archive publishes it. Public Facebook groups and pages run by island organisations and residents. Each item credits the poster by name and links to the original post. Removal on request.

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Individual posters, credited per image
Collection
Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
Original
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=955253494504563&set=pb.100029671343353.-2207520000
Copy taken
2025-09-26
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“Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2014-12-04 15:51:53”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2014-12-04-955253494504563/. copy retrieved 2025-09-26.

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