Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/tom-hermans-9BoqXzEeQqM-unsplash-scaled-square-bcfab1908da22cf8b2b664652c387b60-60b70188b2c39.jpg.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
Several books stand upright in a row on a dark surface. Their bindings and page edges vary in color and condition, with some visibly worn and frayed. The background is out of focus and contains bright patches of blue, red, orange, and white.
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
1,707 × 1,707 px · JPEG · 309 KB
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 record identifies this as a photograph from the Beaver Island Historical Society website and provides an Unsplash-derived filename.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
No book titles or other writing are legible.
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/bb-plugin/cache/tom-hermans-9BoqXzEeQqM-unsplash-scaled-square-bcfab1908da22cf8b2b664652c387b60-60b70188b2c39.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 1,707 × 1,707 px | 309 KB | 460e01296b27… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
Download
- Web-sized image1200 × 1200 · 58 KB · WebP
- The full-resolution original, from Beaver Island Historical Society1,707 × 1,707 · 309 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/tom-hermans-9boqxzeeqqm-unsplash-scaled-square-bcfab1908da22cf8b2b664652c387b60-60b70188b2c39/. 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.