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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2017-12-19-1904692816227288

Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2017-12-19 14:24:04

Four employee portraits in a vessel's control cabin, with service-year labels.

Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2017-12-19 14:24:04. Caption as posted: "As we near the end of another successful season here at BIBCO, we want to honor our dedicated and hardworking employees on their milestone years of service. Thank you for all you do! A special farewell to our Senior Captain, Kevin McDonough on his last year with us and wishing him the best on his upcoming retirement."

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A four-panel photographic collage shows three men seated or standing in a vessel's control cabin and a close-up portrait of a woman. The cabin scenes include windows, instrument panels, controls, chairs, and overhead fixtures. Each panel has a pale text box identifying a person and years of service.

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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2,048 × 1,761 px · JPEG · 337 KB

Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

KEVIN
Kevin McDonough
47 Years
Mike Green
40+ Years
Brian Antkoviak
25 Years
Sheri Timsak
20 Years

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 December 19, 2017 Facebook post by the Beaver Island Boat Company. Its caption honors employees for milestone years of service and gives a farewell to Senior Captain Kevin McDonough on the occasion of his retirement; these claims are consistent with, but distinct from, the visible labels.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The vessel and the occupations of the people are not identified within the image.

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=1904692816227288&set=pb.100029671343353.-2207520000
Copy taken
2025-09-30
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“Posted to Beaver Island Boat Company (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Boat Company on 2017-12-19 14:24:04”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2017-12-19-1904692816227288/. copy retrieved 2025-09-30.

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