Beaver Island Historical Society site

Four adults stand around a framed conservation pledge displayed on an easel in an indoor room. — Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/415.jpg.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A black-and-white photograph shows four adults standing around a large framed display on an easel. The display features an eagle emblem above a conservation pledge, with a dotted oval border around the text. Floral wallpaper, framed pictures, and a small photo display are visible in the background.
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.
Beaver Island Historical Society
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Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

Conservation Pledge

I GIVE MY
PLEDGE AS AN AMERICAN
TO SAVE AND FAITHFULLY TO
DEFEND FROM WASTE THE
NATURAL RESOURCES OF
MY COUNTRY ITS SOIL
AND MINERALS ITS
FORESTS, WATERS
AND WILDLIFE

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 this as a photograph from the Beaver Island Historical Society website, held by the Beaver Island Historical Society. The record provides no date, names, or event identification.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The smallest lettering in the emblem and any text outside the main pledge are not legible.

Rights and credit

Credit this to Beaver Island Historical Society when you use it.

Why this archive publishes it. Beaver Island Historical Society site. Community heritage material with no stated terms; published with credit and a link back.

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Provenance

Held by: Beaver Island Historical Society
Collection: Beaver Island Historical Society website
Original: https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/415.jpg
Copy taken: 2026-07-31
Title from: the note recorded at retrieval

The file

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Cite this

“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/415/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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.