- Date
- 1902
- Eras
- Strang eraIrish era
- Concepts
- historiographyheritagereligiongovernance
Summary
Volume 32 of Michigan Historical Collections is a held 1902 compilation. Its printed p. 176 begins “A Short History of the Beaver Islands,” which continues through p. 179, and the volume also contains later Strang narratives. The held text derivative helps locate material on island names, fishing, settlement, Manitou County, Saint James, Galilee, and retrospective accounts of the Strang era.
It is useful for locating historical claims and their cited antecedents, not for silently importing them into the knowledge graph. The short-history article mixes historical description with broad, often speculative statements; other pieces are explicitly later narratives or reprints. Relevant pages must be checked against the printed scan and, where possible, against the underlying source before they support an entity, event, date, or quotation.
Research use and limits
The held item includes a complete text derivative, not a reviewed transcription of the volume; OCR may alter names, dates, page structure, and quotation boundaries. The checked opening page establishes the article and its use of a Strang quotation, but no historical claim is made solely on this record. In particular, its accounts of early occupation, agricultural landscape, settlement, and Strang-era conflict remain leads pending page-specific and underlying-source review.
See also
Sources
- Described in this archive: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society collections corpus.Printed p. 176 image checked. It heads “A Short History of the Beaver Islands” and shows the article’s 1902 retrospective framing, including a quoted transition into Strang’s 1854 *Ancient and Modern Michilimackinac*. The full provenance-backed DjVu text derivative is also held. The page does not validate the article’s individual historical, geographic, population, archaeological, or interpretive assertions; those require page-specific and underlying-source review.
- Held searchable DjVu text used for discovery and navigation. It is not a checked transcription of the volume; OCR may alter names, dates, quotations, and page boundaries, so it does not independently establish the historical claims located through it.
- Project provenance sidecar for the checked page image of *Michigan Historical Collections*, vol. 32, p. 176.Records the Internet Archive page-image URL, retrieval metadata, checksum, and printed-page/scan-leaf relationship. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
- Project provenance sidecar for the Internet Archive OCR derivative of *Michigan Historical Collections*, vol. 32.Records the Internet Archive item, retrieval metadata, derivative checksum, and relationship to the held access copy. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Michigan Historical Collections, volume 32, 1902”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/michigan-historical-collections-volume-32/, accessed [date], citing *Michigan Historical Collections*, vol. 32 (1902), including “A Short History of the Beaver Islands,” pp. 176–179, Internet Archive item michiganhistoric32mich_0. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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