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Beaver Island Historical Society site

A group of adults and children poses beneath a large bilingual welcome sign outside a wooden building.

Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/794-square-d546f20298cf44a9ecb3408a861e352a-60b5b73c935ce.jpg.

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A large group of adults and children stands on a wooden porch or walkway in front of a wooden building. Several people face the camera, and some raise their hands. Above them is a large sign with Gaelic and English welcome wording; another partially visible sign appears at the right.

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.

CEAD MILE FAILTE
A hundred thousand welcomes
BEAVER ISLAND
WELCOMES YOU

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 identifies this as a photograph from the Beaver Island Historical Society website, held by the Beaver Island Historical Society.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The wording on the smaller line beneath the Gaelic phrase and on the partially visible sign at right is not fully legible. It is unclear whether the scene is indoors or on an exterior porch.

Rights and credit

© the site's owner; archived for research citation under fair use

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/bb-plugin/cache/794-square-d546f20298cf44a9ecb3408a861e352a-60b5b73c935ce.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-31
Title from
the note recorded at retrieval

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“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/794-square-d546f20298cf44a9ecb3408a861e352a-60b5b73c935ce/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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