beaverisland.net community site (incl. Arranmore twinning pages). Crawled copy of https://www.beaverisland.net/beaver-island-history/Historic_Sites/1940_Harbor_Light/harborlight.jpg.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A black-and-white photograph shows a cylindrical lighthouse with a lantern room and gallery beside a two-story light-colored house. A tall pole, evergreen trees, a picket fence, and a gate surround the buildings. Two small figures are visible on the lighthouse gallery, and the rough foreground contains boards or stones.
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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400 × 246 px · JPEG · 17 KB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
The Light House St. James Mich.
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 record places the image in a file labeled “1940 Harbor Light” and identifies the site as St. James, Michigan. The record describes it as a photograph from the beaverisland.net community site.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The faint lettering along the lower edge is difficult to read; the final word or abbreviation may not be exact. The objects scattered across the foreground are indistinct.
Rights and credit
© the site's owner; archived for research citation under fair use
Credit this to beaverisland.net when you use it.
Why this archive publishes it. beaverisland.net community site. No stated terms; published with credit and a link back.
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Provenance
- Held by
- beaverisland.net
- Collection
- beaverisland.net community site
- Original
- https://www.beaverisland.net/beaver-island-history/Historic_Sites/1940_Harbor_Light/harborlight.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 400 × 246 px | 17 KB | a841e02b3ec5… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
Download
- Web-sized image400 × 246 · 11 KB · WebP
- The full-resolution original, from beaverisland.net400 × 246 · 17 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
“beaverisland.net community site (incl”. beaverisland.net. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/harborlight/. 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.