Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Boyd-Wreck-3-scaled.jpg.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A tall, designed page has a large headline, multiple blocks of printed text, three historical photographs, and a newspaper clipping visible along the bottom. The largest photograph shows heavily damaged metal boat structures and several cylindrical barrels on a deck; another shows a burned and dismantled boat interior, while a small portrait shows two men outdoors. A dark green-toned boat image forms a background beneath the page content.
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.
FIVE LIVES LOST IN BOAT BLAST Investigating The Marold II Tragedy What Really Happened? The Marold II's metal structure and gasoline barrels lay on top of the J. Oswald Boyd Metal from both the J. Oswald Boyd and Marold II warped due to the intense heat throughout the night Everett Cole, middle, and Raymond Cole, right, on Beaver Island VOLUME 41 Coast Guards Abandon Search Destroy Old Plates Case Tells D...
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 file crawled from the Beaver Island Historical Society website and credits the Beaver Island Historical Society. The record's supplied title refers to the site and the filename, rather than providing a descriptive title.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The smallest body text and portions of the newspaper clipping are difficult to read. The image combines a webpage-style article layout with embedded historical photographs; its exact original format is unclear.
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.
Material goes off the web without anyone deciding that it should: a host lapses, a gallery is retired, a link stops resolving. Holding a copy — with its provenance, its checksum and its holder's terms recorded beside it — is much of why this archive exists. If you are looking for something whose original has since gone, write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com and a full-size copy of what is held here will be sent to you.
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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/2022/07/Boyd-Wreck-3-scaled.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 1,280 × 2,560 px | 462 KB | 8ac7d4cfdd65… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
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- The full-resolution original, from Beaver Island Historical Society1,280 × 2,560 · 462 KB · JPEG
The archive holds its own copy of that file and will supply it on request; it is not re-served here, because the holder serves it better and a second copy is a second thing to go stale.
Cite this
“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/boyd-wreck-3-scaled/. 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.