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Beaver Island Historical Society site

Indoor exhibition display with blue panels, water-themed photographs, landscape images, and printed interpretive text.

Beaver Island Historical Society site. Crawled copy of https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Waterways-8.jpg.

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A photograph shows a carpeted indoor gallery containing several freestanding, blue-toned exhibition panels. The panels display photographs of sailboats, groups of people, waterfalls, coastlines, aerial landscapes, and other water-related scenes, along with large blocks of printed text. Framed pictures hang on the wall behind the display.

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

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Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
—Lao Tzu, philosopher and poet

Our World IS Water

Carving and Claiming the Land

Source

separation, passages

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 the file as a photograph from the Beaver Island Historical Society website, held by the Beaver Island Historical Society. The source URL is https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Waterways-8.jpg; the file was retrieved July 31, 2026.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

Some smaller captions and paragraph text are too small or blurred to read. The subject of several displayed photographs is indistinct.

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.

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Provenance

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Beaver Island Historical Society
Collection
Beaver Island Historical Society website
Original
https://www.beaverislandhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Waterways-8.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-31
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“Beaver Island Historical Society site”. Beaver Island Historical Society. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/waterways-8/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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