Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2016-06-29 19:08:19.
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A woman stands on a covered porch holding a large white rectangular planter filled with red and white flowers. The white wooden building has dark-trimmed windows, a railing, and several chairs. A green historical plaque and a smaller green-and-white sign are mounted beside the porch.
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Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
Small sign: “Beaver Island Historical Museum and Mormon Print Shop.” Large plaque: “MORMON PRINT SHOP This building was erected in 1850 by James Strang and his followers. Here during the 1850s, these Mormon workers published religious works and newspapers, the Northern Islander and the Daily Northern Islander. Strang’s group had settled on Beaver Island in 1846 after breaking away from the Mormons led by Brigham Young. In 1850 Strang was declared ‘King’ of his community which made up the majority of the population on the Island. In 1856 Strang was fatally shot by two disenchanted followers. In the wake of his assassination, an angry mob from the mainland stormed Beaver Island destroying buildings and forcing the Mormons to flee. At that time, this print shop was ransacked, it later became a boarding house. Today it serves as the headquarters for the Beaver Island Historical Society.” Round emblem: “MICHIGAN … HISTORIC SITE.”
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 record identifies this as a community photograph posted to the Beaver Island Historical Society Facebook page on 2016-06-29. The record credits the individual poster and gives the source URL as Facebook.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The smallest lettering on the round emblem and along the bottom of the large plaque is not fully legible.
Rights and credit
Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution and a link to the original post.
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Provenance
- Held by
- Individual posters, credited per image
- Collection
- Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=546851318856495&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
- Copy taken
- 2025-05-17
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 2,048 × 1,365 px | 446 KB | eaffdf6a4291… |
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Cite this
“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2016-06-29 19:08:19”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2016-06-29-546851318856495/. copy retrieved 2025-05-17.
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