Beaver Island Historical Society site

Photograph of a book cover featuring a large title, a map, and an illustrated bearded portrait. — Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-King-of-Confidence-a.jpg.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A photograph shows a book cover with bold black and red typography, a small colored map at left, and an illustrated bearded man in a suit inside a decorative oval frame. The cover also includes testimonial quotations and a boxed author name near the bottom.
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.

A TALE of UTOPIAN DREAMERS, FRONTIER SCHEMERS, TRUE BELIEVERS, FALSE PROPHETS, AND THE MURDER OF AN AMERICAN MONARCH
THE KING OF CONFIDENCE
“A masterpiece.” —Nathaniel Philbrick
“Ludicrously enjoyable.” —Dave Eggers
MILES HARVEY
AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The Island of Lost Maps

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 source as a crawled copy from the Beaver Island Historical Society website and records the filename as The-King-of-Confidence-a.jpg. The existing alt text identifies the portrayed person as Miles Harvey.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

Small labels and text within the map are not legible. The lower edge of the cover is partly cropped.

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/2020/07/The-King-of-Confidence-a.jpg
Copy taken: 2026-07-31
Title from: the note recorded at retrieval

The file

Renditions held
Rendition	Format	Extent	Size	SHA-256
Master	JPEG	800 × 1,177 px	161 KB	f1905be46206…

Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.

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Cite this

“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/the-king-of-confidence-a/. 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.