Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-05-15 14:42:15. Caption as posted: "Today would have been my dad's birthday. I have always loved this photo. Dressed to the nines and probably not a nickel between them all. From left: Anthony Ricksgers, Larry Cull, Charles McCauley, my dad, Gene and Gene Burke. Anthony drowned in April of 1946, and my dad joined the army the following month. I believe this picture was taken late winter/early spring that year."
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
Five men stand shoulder to shoulder along a bright shoreline. They wear suits, ties, and long dark overcoats; the man at the far right wears a flat cap. Pale snow or sand and a horizontal band of water or sky are visible behind them.
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590 × 408 px · JPEG · 26 KB
Subjects and keywords
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 accompanying record identifies the men from left to right as Anthony Ricksgers, Larry Cull, Charles McCauley, the poster's father, and Gene and Gene Burke; the wording is ambiguous because the image visibly contains five men. The record says Anthony Ricksgers drowned in April 1946, that the poster's father joined the army the following month, and that the photograph is believed to date from late winter or early spring of that year. It was posted by Suzanne Jule on May 15, 2026.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The exact setting and the number or identities of the men cannot be confirmed from the image alone. The pale ground may be snow or sand, and the background horizon is indistinct.
Rights and credit
Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution to the poster and a link to the original post.
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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=10241387451290465&set=g.1178704363851871
- Copy taken
- 2026-05-15
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 590 × 408 px | 26 KB | fb6884dc5d57… |
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- Web-sized image590 × 408 · 14 KB · WebP
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Cite this
“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-05-15 14:42:15”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-05-15-10241387451290465/. copy retrieved 2026-05-15.
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