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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2014-12-08-957716890924890

Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2014-12-08 14:28:31

White ferry viewed head-on in a dry dock at twilight, with snow or ice on the ground.

Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2014-12-08 14:28:31. Caption as posted: "In Dry Dock."

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A large white ferry is viewed head-on in a narrow dry dock, elevated above blocks. Its dark lower hull has a black central bow stripe marked with a white letter, while railings, scaffolding, dock walls, and lamps surround it. Patches of snow or ice are visible on the ground beneath a blue evening sky.

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

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

EMERALD ISLE; B

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 record identifies this as a photograph posted to the Beaver Island Boat Company Facebook page on 2014-12-08, with the caption “In Dry Dock.”

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The lettering on the right side of the bow is partly cropped and not fully legible.

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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Provenance

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Individual posters, credited per image
Collection
Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
Original
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=957716890924890&set=pb.100029671343353.-2207520000
Copy taken
2025-09-26
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MasterJPEG765 × 1,020 px81 KBd91c356d6db5…

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“Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2014-12-08 14:28:31”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2014-12-08-957716890924890/. copy retrieved 2025-09-26.

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