beaverisland.net community site (incl

Illustrated natural-history book cover with botanical and animal images surrounding printed text. — beaverisland.net community site (incl. Arranmore twinning pages). Crawled copy of https://www.beaverisland.net/People/Mary_Blocksma/nature.jpg.
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A small rectangular illustrated book cover is shown. A pale central panel contains several lines of large and small printed text, surrounded by a border of colored drawings of plants, insects, birds, and other natural-history subjects.
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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Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

NATURAL HISTORY
A Seasonal Guide
for the
Leisure Naturalist
IN THE PRESENT

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 the file as a photograph named nature.jpg and provides no further image-specific identification.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The smallest text and some border illustrations are difficult to make out.

Rights and credit

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/People/Mary_Blocksma/nature.jpg
Copy taken: 2026-07-31
Title from: the note recorded at retrieval

The file

Renditions held
Rendition	Format	Extent	Size	SHA-256
Master	JPEG	90 × 129 px	4 KB	fe3ce7dd5a2c…

Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.

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Web-sized image90 × 129 · 4 KB · WebP
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“beaverisland.net community site (incl”. beaverisland.net. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/nature/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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