Land cover circa 1800, from the State of Michigan's reconstruction of the General Land Office surveyors' witness-tree records.
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A thematic map-like plate shows several outlined landmasses filled with varied green, blue, yellow, brown, and gray areas. A color legend at lower left identifies forest, swamp, dune, and water-cover categories with area measurements. The map is surrounded by a white background and includes a two-line heading above.
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.
Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); land cover circa 1800 from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (public domain).
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Subjects and keywords
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Transcribed from the object itself.
Pre-settlement vegetation, circa 1800 Reconstructed by the State of Michigan from the original GLO surveyors' section-line notes Beech-Sugar Maple-Hemlock Forest — 140.7 km² Mixed Conifer Swamp — 19.4 km² Spruce-Fir-Cedar Forest — 10.8 km² Cedar Swamp — 4.0 km² Lake/River — 4.9 km² Mixed Hardwood Swamp — 4.3 km² Shrub Swamp/Marsh — 2.1 km² Sand Dune — 1.0 km² White Pine-Red Pine Forest — 0.7 km² Black Ash Swamp — 0.4 km²
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 atlas figure or thematic plate titled “Pre-settlement vegetation.” It describes the map as land cover circa 1800 reconstructed from General Land Office surveyors' witness-tree records, using data from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and other mapping sources. The drawing is credited to the archive and is recorded as CC BY 4.0, with underlying data under separate terms.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The very small source and credit line along the bottom edge is not fully legible.
Rights and credit
CC BY 4.0 for the drawing; underlying data under its own terms (see credit)
Credit this to Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); land cover circa 1800 from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (public domain). when you use it.
Stated by this archive, which drew the plate.
Provenance
- Held by
- Beaver Island Archive
- Collection
- Thematic plates
- Drawn by
- scripts/make_atlas.py
- Title from
- this archive, which drew the plate
The file
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| Master | PNG | 3,011 × 2,186 px | 556 KB | 04310e08e496… |
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- Written aboutPre-settlement vegetation of the Beaver Island archipelago, circa 1800
- DepictsBeaver Island
- DepictsBeaver Island archipelago
- DepictsGarden Island
- DepictsHigh Island
- DepictsHog Island
- DepictsNorth Fox Island
- DepictsSouth Fox Island
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“Pre-settlement vegetation”. Beaver Island Archive. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/plate/presettlement-vegetation/.
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.