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Beaver Island Historical Society site

White clapboard building with a covered porch, flower boxes, and a large sign above the entrance.

Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Print-Shop-Museum.jpg.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A white clapboard building has a broad covered porch supported by square columns and enclosed by white railings. Flower boxes filled with red and white blossoms hang along the porch, with additional planted flowers bordering the sidewalk. A large rectangular sign is mounted above the porch, and a black metal handrail crosses the foreground.

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 Print Shop Museum

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 the image as a photograph from the Beaver Island Historical Society website and credits the Beaver Island Historical Society. The source URL is https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Print-Shop-Museum.jpg; the record says it was retrieved in 2026.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

Additional small lettering on the partially visible signs and doors is not legible.

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.

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 Island Historical Society
Collection
Beaver Island Historical Society website
Original
https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Print-Shop-Museum.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-31
Title from
the note recorded at retrieval

The file

Renditions held
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“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/print-shop-museum/. 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.