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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2023-07-18-758933406236833

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2023-07-18 13:06:01

A bilingual directional sign mounted on two posts, with an arrow pointing left and a distance of 2750 miles.

Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2023-07-18 13:06:01. Caption as posted: "Today only, looping in our “micro-cinema” from 11 AM - 5 PM at the Print Shop Museum: HOME ON THE ISLAND by Moondance Productions ( moondance.tv/show/home-on-the-island ) A twinning ceremony between Ireland's Árrain Mhór Island and Beaver Island represents a long history of exile and community from 1851 tracing back to modern day. #BIHSScreeningSeries"

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A white rectangular sign is mounted on two dark posts against a blue sky and blurred rocky surroundings. Large dark lettering fills the sign, with a left-pointing arrow and a small emblem in the upper-right corner.

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.

Beaver Island
2750 MILE
Oileán na m-Béabhair
COOP
M

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 image was posted to the Beaver Island Historical Society Facebook page on 2023-07-18. The accompanying caption promoted a one-day screening of the film “Home on the Island” by Moondance Productions at the Print Shop Museum, as part of the BIHS Screening Series, and described a twinning ceremony involving Árrain Mhór Island and Beaver Island.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The small emblem in the upper-right corner is difficult to interpret; its visible lettering may read “COOP” with “M” beneath it.

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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Individual posters, credited per image
Collection
Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
Original
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=758933406236833&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
Copy taken
2025-04-07
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2023-07-18 13:06:01”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2023-07-18-758933406236833/. copy retrieved 2025-04-07.

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