Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2024-03-07 21:47:56. Caption as posted: "Vintage Irish Postcards 1912-1917."
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A photograph shows three illustrated postcards arranged side by side. The cards feature green shamrocks and clover, a harp, decorative borders, printed verses, and small landscape scenes with buildings, water, and mountains.
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.
Individual posters, credited per image
2,920 × 1,436 px · JPEG · 609 KB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
On the 8th day of March it was, some people say That St Patrick, at midnight, he first saw the day; While others declared it was the 9th he was born, And 'twas all a mistake between midnight and morn- For mistakes will occur in a hurry and shock, And some blamed the baby and some blamed the clock. Till with all their disputings, sure no one could know But both of these factions so positive grew That each kept a birthday and Pat, then had two. Till Father Mulcahy who showed them their sins Said: No one could have two but a fine pair of twins Don't always be fighting, but sometimes combine. Eight and nine add together-seven times the mark So let that be his birthday. Amen, said the clerk. KEEP YOUR MEMORY GREEN Erin go Bragh I know a sunny island Set in an emerald sea, 'Tis there I long to live and love The sweets of life to see THE TOP OF THE MORNING TO YOU
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 the posted caption as “Vintage Irish Postcards 1912-1917.” It was posted to the Beaver Island Historical Society Facebook page by the Beaver Island Historical Society on 2024-03-07.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Some small lines in the left postcard poem are difficult to read fully; the transcription follows the visible lettering as closely as possible.
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.
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
- Individual posters, credited per image
- Collection
- Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=917870120343160&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
- Copy taken
- 2025-04-24
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 2,920 × 1,436 px | 609 KB | 4d9469fe404c… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
Download
- Web-sized image1200 × 590 · 91 KB · WebP
- The full-resolution original, from Individual posters, credited per image2,920 × 1,436 · 609 KB · JPEG
The archive holds its own copy of that file and will supply it on request; it is not re-served here, because the holder serves it better and a second copy is a second thing to go stale.
Cite this
“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2024-03-07 21:47:56”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2024-03-07-917870120343160/. copy retrieved 2025-04-24.
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.