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Beaver Island Historical Society site

A tall illustrated page presents two women's biographies alongside portraits and other historical photographs.

Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Gutsy-Women-of-Beaver-Island-2-scaled.jpg.

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A tall, vertically arranged page has a reddish-brown and olive background with large white headings and several blocks of smaller text. The upper section includes a black-and-white portrait of a seated woman in a long, ruffled dress. The lower section includes a portrait of a woman in a military nursing uniform, a smaller portrait, a landscape photograph, and a document image.

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.

Ruth Ann Bedford
The Woman Who Refused to Wear Bloomers

Mary Elizabeth
(Betty) Cull Lockton
A True War Hero

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

Photo Credits: The Betty Cull Lockton Family

The body text includes biographical accounts concerning women's clothing, nursing, military service, family, and historical events.

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 digital image from the Beaver Island Historical Society website, held by the Beaver Island Historical Society. The recorded source is a crawled copy of the supplied website URL; the record classifies the object as a photograph.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

Much of the small body text and the text within the reproduced document are too small to transcribe reliably from the available image.

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

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Beaver Island Historical Society
Collection
Beaver Island Historical Society website
Original
https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Gutsy-Women-of-Beaver-Island-2-scaled.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-31
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“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/gutsy-women-of-beaver-island-2-scaled/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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