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beaverisland.net community site (incl

Black-and-white photograph of a mill complex with a chimney, lumber piles, trees, and a person on sandy ground.

beaverisland.net community site (incl. Arranmore twinning pages). Crawled copy of https://www.beaverisland.net/beaver-island-history/Historic_Sites/Nomad/nc10.jpg.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A black-and-white photograph shows a large mill building with a tall narrow chimney, surrounded by trees. Lumber or logs are stacked along the left side, while a person stands on an open sandy path in the foreground. Handwritten lettering appears along the upper edge of the image.

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 × 248 px · JPEG · 21 KB

Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

COLE'S MILL; 1906; CAL. [with an arrow pointing toward the building]

Taken from the record

Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.

Crawled from the beaverisland.net community site; the archive path places the image in the Historic_Sites/Nomad section. The catalogue identifies the object as a photograph and records dimensions of 400 × 248 pixels.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The short inscription beside the arrow is faint and may not read exactly “CAL.” The person’s features and the building’s smaller details 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.

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
beaverisland.net
Collection
beaverisland.net community site
Original
https://www.beaverisland.net/beaver-island-history/Historic_Sites/Nomad/nc10.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-31
Title from
the note recorded at retrieval

The file

Renditions held
RenditionFormatExtentSizeSHA-256
MasterJPEG400 × 248 px21 KB87837f314490…

Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.

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“beaverisland.net community site (incl”. beaverisland.net. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/nc10/. 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.