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Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-21 18:05:51

Children pose outdoors before a wood-sided house, with a handwritten “9th Birthday” inscription above them.

Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-21 18:05:51. Caption as posted: "**Update:** Back row: Lila Lee Connaghan, Mary Malloy, Mary LaFreniere, Margaret Ellen McDonough Front Row: Rosie McDonough, Rosalie Bennett, the birthday girl Sally Cull, Roland Cull, and Kay McDonough Sally Cull's Sally Hammermeister (Lucy Hammermeister Beck) 9th birthday in 1942, Sally is front and center."

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A black-and-white photograph shows a group of children posing outdoors in front of a wood-sided house. They wear dresses, shirts, overalls, socks, and shoes, and stand in several rows on grass and low vegetation.

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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9th Birthday

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The catalogue caption identifies the children as Lila Lee Connaghan, Mary Malloy, Mary LaFreniere, Margaret Ellen McDonough, Rosie McDonough, Rosalie Bennett, Sally Cull/Sally Hammermeister (Lucy Hammermeister Beck), Roland Cull, and Kay McDonough. It describes the photograph as showing a ninth birthday celebration in 1942 and credits Suzanne Jule as the poster.

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The catalogue caption states that nine children are pictured, but more figures may be visible in the image; individual identities cannot be verified visually.

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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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10240188699722425&set=g.1178704363851871
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2026-02-21
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“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-21 18:05:51”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-02-21-10240188699722425/. copy retrieved 2026-02-21.

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