Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-10-10 18:01:01. Caption as posted: "Circa 1950, a Kodak postcard of Henry Allen's harbor-side rental cabins in St. James, which were later converted into larger summer homes. On the far left can be seen the roof and stack of what was then Gus Mielke's sawmill; it had earlier been the Beaver Island Lumber Company mill, running from 1902-1915. The pilings of BILCO's dock that once extended far out into the harbor spot the waters behind the cabins, photo left, center and right. In the post-war years Allen had built small rental cabins on the sand dunes of Donegal Bay as well; part of several community initiatives to build up a "
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A black-and-white photograph shows several small wooden cabins with gabled roofs beside a paved road. Tall pine trees, utility poles, a roadside guardrail, and a freestanding sign occupy the foreground; water and distant structures are visible behind the cabins. White lettering appears along the lower edge of the image.
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Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
Allen's Cabins ALLEN'S CABINS ST. JAMES ON BEAVER ISLAND MICH.
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 caption identifies this as a circa 1950 Kodak postcard showing Henry Allen's harbor-side rental cabins in St. James. It states that the cabins were later converted into larger summer homes and that the roof and stack of Gus Mielke's sawmill, formerly the Beaver Island Lumber Company mill, appear at the far left. The caption also identifies pilings from the former Beaver Island Lumber Company dock in the water behind the cabins.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The distant structures and objects in the water are not clear enough to identify confidently.
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Provenance
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- Collection
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- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1242256379315982&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
- Copy taken
- 2019-10-10
- Title from
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The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 1,600 × 1,069 px | 269 KB | f251b7572788… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-10-10 18:01:01”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2019-10-10-1242256379315982/. copy retrieved 2019-10-10.
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