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"Font Lake, Beaver Island, where King Strang baptized his people" — plate from A Child of the Sea (1905)

TypePhotograph
Date1905
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1905
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Font Lake, Beaver Island, where King Strang baptized his people" — plate
Font Lake, Beaver Island, where King Strang baptized his people" — plateWikimedia Commons (per-file credit in the sidecar) · Public domain

A plate from Elizabeth Whitney Williams’s A Child of the Sea (1905), captioned by the author as the lake where Strang baptised his followers. The caption is Williams’s claim, made half a century after the events she describes.

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  1. Opened; plate as described.
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Beaver Island Archive, “"Font Lake, Beaver Island, where King Strang baptized his people" — plate from A Child of the Sea (1905)”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/williams-1905-plate-font-lake/, accessed [date], citing Wikimedia Commons, "Font Lake, Beaver Island, where King Strang baptized his people" — plate from A Child of the Sea (1905).

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