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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2015-07-19-423910674483894

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2015-07-19 12:55:52

A wall-mounted wooden telephone with twin bells, a side handset, crank, and warning sign.

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2015-07-19 12:55:52. Caption as posted: "Museum Week kicks off today at 1:00 p.m. Join us at the School for an Olde Fashioned Ice Cream Social for $5.00 Great way to spend another day in Paradise Bay. Best to come by, our phone gets tied up with numerous calls on weekends"

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A polished wooden wall-mounted telephone fills the photograph. It has two dark bells, a handset on the left, a large circular central component, and a crank on the right. A rectangular warning sign is mounted below it.

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Transcribed from the object itself.

ELECTRON
Please do not attempt to make any long-distance calls.
Please do not attempt to make any local calls, either.
In fact, please do not even use this telephone.

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 image was posted to the Beaver Island Historical Society Facebook page on 2015-07-19. The accompanying caption announced a Museum Week ice cream social at the School and mentioned weekend telephone calls.

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=423910674483894&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
Copy taken
2025-05-09
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2015-07-19 12:55:52”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2015-07-19-423910674483894/. copy retrieved 2025-05-09.

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