Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-05-08 12:55:59. Caption as posted: "Willie Schmidt (1906-1979) working his fields with a team of horses, circa 1940's. Schmidt's farmstead was located on the turn of East Side Drive between Four Corners and Welke's Airport (which itself had been the farm of 'Big Owen' Gallagher). The turn is still known to islanders today as "Willie Schmidt's Corner", though the Schmidt farmhouse was torn down in the 1980's. The Schmidt's were among a handful of German families including the Ricksgers who were brought to the island by Holy Cross Parish priest father Alexander Zugelder (1869-1960). These families set up farms surrounding the"
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A person wearing a brimmed hat guides two harnessed horses through a field. The team pulls a wheeled agricultural implement, with dust or chaff rising near the ground. Tall vegetation fills the foreground and a lightly wooded horizon appears behind them.
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The catalogue caption identifies the worker as Willie Schmidt (1906–1979) and dates the scene to approximately the 1940s. It states that the photograph shows work on the Schmidt farmstead and was posted by Suzanne Jule.
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The exact type of agricultural implement is unclear.
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- 2026-05-08
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| Master | JPEG | 1,775 × 952 px | 156 KB | 836e3126c278… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-05-08 12:55:59”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-05-08-10170607484316337/. copy retrieved 2026-05-08.
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