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Beaver Island Historical Society site

Four adults gather behind a bar, with one person pouring a drink among bottles and glasses.

Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/443.jpg.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

Four adults stand behind a polished bar counter in front of a wood-sided building. One person in a white shirt and tie pours liquid into a glass while the others hold or stand near drinks. Bottles, glasses, a pitcher, and other bar items are spread across the counter.

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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Subjects and keywords

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 identifies this image as a photograph from the Beaver Island Historical Society website; the record supplies no individual names, date, or location for the scene.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The labels on the bottles and other containers are not legible. It is unclear whether all four adults are working at the bar or whether some are patrons.

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.

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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/2018/05/443.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/443/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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