Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-01-13 20:07:36. Caption as posted: "From a FB post I wrote for the BIHS seven years ago: "Here's an unusual slice of local Americana: A 1955 Donald Duck comic entitled "Iceboat to Beaver Island", in which our luckless duck delivers mail to the BI Post Office by motorized sled, with disastrous results. The veteran cartoonist Carl Barks (1901-2000) wrote and illustrated the first Donald Duck stories for Walt Disney Comics, working on the series from the 1940's through the '60's. While Barks' inspiration for this story is unknown, there are at least a couple copies of this vintage comic book still floating around the community t"
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A comic-book page contains eight colored panels set on snowy ice. Three cartoon ducks talk with a taller figure in a yellow coat, while another duck announces a mail-carrier job. The final panel shows a small motorized sled or iceboat carrying mail across the ice.
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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Transcribed from the object itself.
ME, TOO! I'M TIRED OF HEARING HIM ROAR UP AND DOWN THAT LAKE IN HIS HOMEMADE ICEBOAT! ROAR! HE THINKS THE ICEBOAT WILL HELP HIM GET A JOB! WHAT AT-SELLING EAR PLUGS? HE SEES US! HE'S COMING ASHORE TO TELL US SOMETHING! CONGRATULATE ME, BOYS! IT HAS HAPPENED! YOU'VE GOT A JOB? YESSIR! AND A HIGH-CLASS JOB, TOO! I'LL WEAR A UNIFORM! A SUIT WITH STRIPES AROUND IT, I BET! SHUT UP, CYNIC! I'M GOING TO BE A MAIL CARRIER! OH, BOY! OH, BOY! A MAN IN GRAY! THE POSTMASTER SAYS MY ICEBOAT IS JUST THE THING FOR HAULING THE MAIL TO BEAVER ISLAND!
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 image as a photograph posted by Suzanne Jule to a public Facebook group on January 13, 2026. The accompanying record caption describes it as a 1955 Donald Duck comic entitled "Iceboat to Beaver Island" and attributes the story to cartoonist Carl Barks.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The page edges and any comic publication title or issue information are not visible.
Rights and credit
Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution to the poster 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
- Held by
- Individual posters, credited per image
- Collection
- Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10170000222171337&set=g.1178704363851871
- Copy taken
- 2026-01-13
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 432 × 646 px | 54 KB | a674a4a663a5… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
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- Web-sized image432 × 646 · 40 KB · WebP
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Cite this
“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-01-13 20:07:36”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-01-13-10170000222171337/. copy retrieved 2026-01-13.
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.