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Light House Stairs

Looking down a blue perforated metal spiral staircase inside a round tower.

Beaver Beacon photo gallery — original for photo 1126 (Light House Stairs). Permalink https://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1126.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A blue-painted metal spiral staircase curves downward around a central vertical rail. The stair treads have repeating perforated geometric patterns, and the surrounding walls are rough and light-colored.

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 Beacon (individual photographers credited per image)

640 × 480 px · JPEG · 233 KB

Subjects and keywords

Taken from the record

Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.

Catalogue title: “Light House Stairs”; dated January 18, 2006; credited to Beaver Beacon photo gallery and uploader Sean; listed as original photo 1126.

Rights and credit

© the individual photographers and/or the Beaver Beacon. The gallery's own footer states, verbatim: "Copyright Note: You must obtain written permission from the copyright holder before using any of these images for any commercial purpose. Contact the Beaver Beacon if you have any questions or need to contact the copyright owner of a specific image." The site footer adds: "© 2002-2010 The Beaver Beacon. All Rights Reserved." No licence, public-domain dedication or terms-of-use page was located anywhere on the gallery; the note above addresses commercial use only and is silent on non-commercial republication, and that silence is recorded as silence rather than read as permission.

Credit this to Beaver Beacon (individual photographers credited per image) when you use it.

Why this archive publishes it. Beaver Beacon site and photo gallery. The gallery's notice conditions COMMERCIAL use on written permission and says nothing about any other use; this archive is non-commercial, so that condition is met. Credit and a link to the photo's own gallery page accompany every item. The gallery is also no longer maintained — its newest upload is dated 2019-05-26 and the site footer stops at 2010 — which is the case for preserving it rather than an argument that its terms lapsed. Removal on request, from the Beacon or from any photographer.

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.

Recorded verbatim from the provenance sidecar taken at retrieval — this archive does not restate a holder's terms in its own words, does not add a restriction the holder did not state, and does not abridge one.

Provenance

Held by
Beaver Beacon (individual photographers credited per image)
Collection
Beaver Beacon photo gallery
Date
2006-01-18
Original
https://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/data/500/lighthouse2.jpg
Copy taken
2026-08-03
Title from
the holder's own catalogue
The holder's own catalogue record
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permalinkhttps://www.beaverbeacon.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1126
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titleLight House Stairs
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title truncated
uploaderSean
views3950

The file

Renditions held
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MasterJPEG640 × 480 px233 KB1e890319f46d…

Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.

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Cite this

“Light House Stairs”. 2006-01-18. Beaver Beacon (individual photographers credited per image). Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/lighthouse2/. copy retrieved 2026-08-03.

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.