Plat of Garden Island, second Hixson printing. Garden Island on a leaf of its own, which is how this printing differs most usefully from the other copy MSU holds, where the island shares its leaf with the mainland township of Evangeline. Sheet heading as printed: GARDEN ISLAND T.39 & 40N. R.9 & 10W. Canvas 15 of 16 in the IIIF manifest for Michigan State University Digital Repository item 113, held separately by that repository as item 128 (https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m53f4qp5x); the same leaf is page 17 of the volume PDF, verified against that page's own printed heading. The atlas prints no leaf numbers, so canvas position and PDF page are the only two numberings it has. Source: W. W. Hixson & Co., Rockford, Illinois, Plat Book of Charlevoix Co. Mich., between 1929 and 1955 — the repository gives a range, not a year.
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Public domain — Michigan State University Libraries records this atlas as 'No Copyright', on the ground that it was 'Published in the United States before 1978 without a copyright notice', and its IIIF manifest carries the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0.
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Provenance
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- Michigan State University Libraries, Digital Repository
- Collection
- Plat book of Charlevoix County, Michigan, second Hixson copy — archipelago sheets
- Original
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- Copy taken
- 2026-08-06
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| Master | JPEG | 6,600 × 5,100 px | 11.5 MB | 4e6d9b06c64d… |
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“Plat of Garden Island, second Hixson printing”. Michigan State University Libraries, Digital Repository. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/map/garden-island-plat-1929-1955/. copy retrieved 2026-08-06.
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