Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2026-07-03 16:26:54. Caption as posted: "Red, White, and a splash of Lake Michigan Blue."
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A white passenger ferry with a dark green lower hull travels across open water, with a tree-lined shore behind it. A green shamrock is displayed on the upper deck, and a red navigation buoy floats nearby. Red, white, and blue stars, stripes, and curling lines frame the image around the words “HAPPY 4th of July.”
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2,048 × 1,717 px · JPEG · 300 KB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
HAPPY 4th of July
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
Catalogue record identifies this as a post to the Beaver Island Boat Company Facebook page, posted by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2026-07-03. The recorded caption is “Red, White, and a splash of Lake Michigan Blue.”
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Small lettering on the ferry hull is not fully legible.
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.
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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=1912450803087279&set=pb.100029671343353.-2207520000
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-04
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 2,048 × 1,717 px | 300 KB | 0a4189d7c945… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
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- Web-sized image1200 × 1006 · 74 KB · WebP
- The full-resolution original, from Individual posters, credited per image2,048 × 1,717 · 300 KB · JPEG
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Cite this
“Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2026-07-03 16:26:54”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-07-03-1912450803087279/. copy retrieved 2026-07-04.
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