North End of Lake Michigan including the Beaver Island Group, U.S. Lake Survey (Macomb, surveys 1854-55, pub. [1857]). Full-resolution image (7479x5433, the largest derivative the archive serves; its IIIF endpoint offers no TIFF). Labels: BEAVER ISLAND, GARDEN ISLAND, HIGH Id, GULL ISLAND, TROUT ISLAND, WHISKEY ISLAND, SQUAW ISLAND, HAT ISLAND, HOG Id, BEAVER HARBOR. Commonwealth id 5x21zv061.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A large printed nautical chart on an aged sheet shows irregular coastlines, numerous islands, dotted depth soundings, navigation lines, grid lines, and two compass roses. Blocks of explanatory text, tables, printed labels, and handwritten notes appear around the chart margins.
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.
Leventhal Map & Education Center
7,479 × 5,433 px · JPEG · 3.6 MB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
NORTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN AND BEAVER ISLAND GROUP
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 a map from the U.S. Lake Survey, based on surveys conducted in 1854–55 and published around 1857. The record names the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library as the holding institution and supplies the labels BEAVER ISLAND, GARDEN ISLAND, HIGH Id, GULL ISLAND, TROUT ISLAND, WHISKEY ISLAND, SQUAW ISLAND, HAT ISLAND, HOG Id, and BEAVER HARBOR.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Most small printed labels, marginal text, tables, and handwritten notes are too small to read reliably.
Rights and credit
No known restrictions (Digital Commonwealth / Leventhal Map Center)
Credit this to Leventhal Map & Education Center when you use it.
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Provenance
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library
- Collection
- Historical maps — Leventhal Map & Education Center
- Named on the record
- Leventhal Map & Education Center
- Original
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5712rk77z/full_image
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- an article in this archive
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 7,479 × 5,433 px | 3.6 MB | 0520fd1720cc… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
Download
- Web-sized image900 × 654 · 23 KB · WebP
- The full-resolution original, from Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library7,479 × 5,433 · 3.6 MB · JPEG
The archive holds its own copy of that file and will supply it on request; it is not re-served here, because the holder serves it better and a second copy is a second thing to go stale.
In this archive
- Written aboutfull image
Cite this
Leventhal Map & Education Center. “full image”. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/map/us-lake-survey-1857-north-end-lake-michigan/. 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.