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Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages2026-07-17-1385647333706449

Posted to Beaver Island Happenings (public Facebook group) by Cael Conway on 2026-07-17 14:35:39

A painted blue sign for a toy store and gallery stands among leafy trees and flowers.

Posted to Beaver Island Happenings (public Facebook group) by Cael Conway on 2026-07-17 14:35:39.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A vertically framed outdoor scene shows a blue-green wooden sign mounted on two wooden posts amid dense leafy vegetation. The sign has colorful decorative illustrations, including stars and butterflies, with pink flowers visible near the bottom of the frame. Social-media interface elements and captions are overlaid on the image.

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.

Individual posters, credited per image

1,016 × 2,048 px · JPEG · 194 KB

Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

BEAVER ISLAND
TOY STORE
and GALLERY

The overlaid text reads:
the Beaver Island toy store on Beaver Island
Michigan Enjoyer
Check out the coolest toy store with Lottie!
Beaver Island Toy Store and Gallery full tour

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 archive record identifies this as a public Facebook group post credited to Cael Conway, posted on 2026-07-17 at 14:35:39. The record describes the source as a community photograph from a public Facebook group.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The date line along the bottom of the physical sign is partially obscured or blurred and cannot be transcribed confidently.

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.

Material goes off the web without anyone deciding that it should: a host lapses, a gallery is retired, a link stops resolving. Holding a copy — with its provenance, its checksum and its holder's terms recorded beside it — is much of why this archive exists. If you are looking for something whose original has since gone, write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com and a full-size copy of what is held here will be sent to you.

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Provenance

Held by
Individual posters, credited per image
Collection
Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
Original
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1385647333706449&set=g.255336681681656
Copy taken
2026-07-17
Title from
the note recorded at retrieval

The file

Renditions held
RenditionFormatExtentSizeSHA-256
MasterJPEG1,016 × 2,048 px194 KB7c01bace0597…

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“Posted to Beaver Island Happenings (public Facebook group) by Cael Conway on 2026-07-17 14:35:39”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-07-17-1385647333706449/. copy retrieved 2026-07-17.

Built only from what the archive recorded: the names on the record, the title as recorded, the date if one was recorded, this page, and the date the copy was taken. Nothing is filled in to satisfy a citation style.