Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-11-04 22:56:53. Caption as posted: "Inscribed "Main Street High Island 1900 +", this picture was likely taken between 1912-1927, during the island's occupation by a colony of the House of David religious sect based in Benton Harbor, Michigan. At it's peak, the lakeside village near High Island Bay on the island's northeast side held 120-150 Israelites, as they were called. Members ran timber-cutting and farming operations that supplied their extensive home base in Benton Harbor with building lumber and large amounts of root vegetables for the vegetarian congregation there. Before, during, and after the House of David era, High"
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A wooden house with a covered porch stands along a broad unpaved street. One or more people are visible on the porch, with additional wooden buildings farther down the street. Cut logs are stacked at the right edge, and trees appear in the distance.
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Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
Main Street High Island 1900 +
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 the scene as a village called High Island and says the photograph was likely made between 1912 and 1927, despite the handwritten inscription. The caption associates the settlement with a House of David colony and describes timber-cutting and farming operations there.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The people on the porch and details of the distant buildings are indistinct.
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Provenance
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- Collection
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- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1268044970070456&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
- Copy taken
- 2019-11-07
- Title from
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The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 564 × 340 px | 36 KB | f74b4e3b150b… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-11-04 22:56:53”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2019-11-04-1268044970070456/. copy retrieved 2019-11-07.
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