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Beaver Island Historical Society site

A seated outdoor audience listens to a speaker on the porch of a white-sided building.

Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/Screenshot-2021-05-21-at-12.52.05-square-0f0abb6c8ec5f384c07bf9e13583b444-606e2cbe4b0a9.png.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A large audience sits in rows of colorful folding and plastic lawn chairs facing a white, wood-sided building. A person stands on the covered porch addressing the group, with books or other items visible behind the porch railing and a freestanding sign at the right edge.

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

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 this as an image from the Beaver Island Historical Society website, held by the Beaver Island Historical Society.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The text on the sign at the right and any text in the porch display cannot be read.

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/bb-plugin/cache/Screenshot-2021-05-21-at-12.52.05-square-0f0abb6c8ec5f384c07bf9e13583b444-606e2cbe4b0a9.png
Copy taken
2026-07-31
Title from
the note recorded at retrieval

The file

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“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/screenshot-2021-05-21-at-12-52-05-square-0f0abb6c8ec5f384c07bf9e13583b444-606e2cbe4b0a9/. 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.