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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2019-09-24-1228184710723149

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-09-24 01:04:51

Black-and-white shoreline photograph with sailing vessels, people, and a path beside calm water.

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-09-24 01:04:51. Caption as posted: "Circa 1910, a view of Paradise Bay - likely by Kalkaska-based Edward L. Beebe (1871-1945), a turn-of-the-century Michigan portrait and landscape photographer who captured a number of island scenes that later became postcards. The photo was taken near today's ball park, in front of what was then a saloon and is now a private home - a building Beebe also photographed at the time. The ribs of the abandoned schooners seen here were still visible in that area of the harbor into the early 1970's."

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A broad grassy shoreline slopes toward calm water, with a pale unpaved path curving across the foreground. Several people stand or walk near the shore. Two-masted sailing vessels and low boat hulls are visible across the water and along the opposite shoreline, backed by trees and scattered buildings.

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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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 archive caption dates the scene to circa 1910 and identifies it as a view of Paradise Bay, likely photographed by Edward L. Beebe. It states that the photograph was taken near the ball park, in front of a building then used as a saloon, and that ribs of abandoned schooners remained visible in the area into the early 1970s.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The distant boats and shoreline structures are not identifiable in detail; it is unclear whether the low hulls are abandoned wrecks or active boats.

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
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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
Original
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1228184710723149&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
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2019-09-24
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-09-24 01:04:51”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2019-09-24-1228184710723149/. copy retrieved 2019-09-24.

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