Beaver Island Historical Society site

Shingled marine museum building on a fenced wooden pier, with benches and interpretive signs. — Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSC1361-scaled.jpg.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A small dark-shingled wooden building with a steep gabled roof stands on a wooden pier or boardwalk. Chain-link fencing, wooden railings, a ramp, and benches surround the building. Trees, neighboring buildings, and a bright blue sky are visible in the background; signs with white lettering are mounted on the front gable.
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.

BEAVER ISLAND
MARINE MUSEUM
OPENED JULY 4, 1976

FISHING VILLAGE

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 and supplies the source URL https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSC1361-scaled.jpg.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

Additional text on both mounted signs is visible but too small to transcribe reliably.

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/2021/10/DSC1361-scaled.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/dsc1361-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.