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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2017-10-24-1841183739244863

Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2017-10-24 16:07:58

A bear mascot spreads its arms on a boat deck beneath a camera graphic and the words “SAY CHEESE!”

Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2017-10-24 16:07:58. Caption as posted: "Calling all photographers! Have you captured amazing moments from a recent trip aboard our vessels? If so, then WE WANT YOU to compete in our upcoming Brochure Photography Contest for 2018! The winner will receive (4) Round Trip Passenger Tickets. For more info on how to enter and contest details, please visit the following link: http://www.bibco.com/817-2/ Good luck! #RidetheBoat"

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A person in a brown bear mascot costume stands on an open deck with arms outstretched, wearing a bright green T-shirt. Blue water, a low shoreline, and a partly cloudy sky appear behind the figure. Large white lettering and a graphic camera surrounded by yellow rays are overlaid in the upper left.

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.

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Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

SAY CHEESE!
[partially obscured] BOAT COMPANY

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 Facebook post by Beaver Island Boat Company, published on 2017-10-24, inviting photography-contest entries for a 2018 brochure.

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The first line of text on the shirt is partly obscured.

Rights and credit

Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution and a link to the original post.

Credit this to Individual posters, credited per image when you use it.

Why this archive publishes it. Public Facebook groups and pages run by island organisations and residents. Each item credits the poster by name and links to the original post. Removal on request.

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Provenance

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Individual posters, credited per image
Collection
Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
Original
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1841183739244863&set=pb.100029671343353.-2207520000
Copy taken
2025-09-30
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MasterJPEG940 × 788 px56 KB487f15d51d11…

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“Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2017-10-24 16:07:58”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2017-10-24-1841183739244863/. copy retrieved 2025-09-30.

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