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Beaver Island Historical Society site

Three men in white coats and a dark jacket pose with cups inside a room containing equipment, bottles, and a globe.

Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/401.jpg.

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Three men pose indoors, two wearing white coats and one wearing a dark jacket. Each holds a small cup. The room contains a large piece of equipment, framed pictures, shelves of bottles, a globe, and a cabinet.

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.

Beaver Island Historical Society

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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 is catalogued as a photograph from the Beaver Island Historical Society website collection. The archive record provides no names, date, or specific identification for the people or setting.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The men's identities, the contents of the cups, and the purpose of the equipment are not identified.

Rights and credit

© the site's owner; archived for research citation under fair use

Credit this to Beaver Island Historical Society when you use it.

Why this archive publishes it. Beaver Island Historical Society site. Community heritage material with no stated terms; published with credit and a link back.

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
Beaver Island Historical Society
Collection
Beaver Island Historical Society website
Original
https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/401.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-31
Title from
the note recorded at retrieval

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“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/401/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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