Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Bessie-Smith-1.jpg.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A grainy monochrome photograph shows a large sailing vessel viewed broadside, with several tall masts and a dark hull. A small group of people stands near the vessel at lower left, while trees or brush appear at the right. A faint watermark is visible across the center.
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
400 × 566 px · JPEG · 22 KB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
TBNMS
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 file as a photograph from the Beaver Island Historical Society website, titled “Beaver Island Historical Society site · bessie-smith-1.” The record provides the source filename Bessie-Smith-1.jpg and a URL, but does not identify the vessel.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The image is too faint to determine the exact number of masts, the vessel's name, whether the pale foreground is snow, ice, or water, or whether the people are standing on shore or on the vessel.
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.
Recorded verbatim from the provenance sidecar taken at retrieval — this archive does not restate a holder's terms in its own words, does not add a restriction the holder did not state, and does not abridge one.
Provenance
- Held by
- Beaver Island Historical Society
- Collection
- Beaver Island Historical Society website
- Original
- https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Bessie-Smith-1.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 400 × 566 px | 22 KB | 3bb8f1656be3… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
Download
- Web-sized image400 × 566 · 9 KB · WebP
- The full-resolution original, from Beaver Island Historical Society400 × 566 · 22 KB · JPEG
The archive holds its own copy of that file and will supply it on request; it is not re-served here, because the holder serves it better and a second copy is a second thing to go stale.
Cite this
“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/bessie-smith-1/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.
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.