Martin Digital History

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  • Family examines and sorts crates of oranges.

    Back undivided (required after 1907), one cent stamp
  • House on a dirt road, labeled "Rock Road." Handwritten on back: "According to Dave Witham, his father, Mark, went to second grade in this building around 1909. The house was a private residence in later years. It was the home of Fred & Viola Rue in [the] 1941 directory. He had Stuart Paint Co. Viola was a clerk in the tax assessor's office. 369 E. 4th Street (Ocean Blvd)." Caption from Sandy History Lady blog (12 June 2026) notes: "Roads in Stuart’s early days were so few this one that had been covered with crushed rock warranted a postcard. When this photograph was taken, the 1908 concrete block school house had yet to be built. Later the road would be 4th Street and in 1961 would be renamed East Ocean Boulevard."

    Another copy records image from a postcard postmarked on 1906.
  • Photograph published in Gilbert's Bar House Of Refuge - Home Of History by Sandra Henderson Thurlow and Deanna Wintercorn Thurlow (p. 16) with the caption "All houses of refuge had decorative porch rail braces like those in this 1906 photograph of Bethel Creek House of Refuge."

    Poor quality copy.
  • Banana tree with a bunch of bananas.

    Listed in the FPC record book 1 (PDF p. 20) as "507 Banana Plant and fruit, copyright 1906"
  • Three young girls on a rocky beach. Labeled Josephine K., Mabel Dyer, and Margaretta Selzer.
  • "Bananas near Stuart - delicious bananas grow luxuriantly." Caption "Copyright1906 by H.E. Hill." Listed in FPC record book 1 as "507 Banana Plant and fruit." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.
  • Workers load pineapples into crates.
  • Workers load pineapples onto a tram.
  • Small booklet with Christmas greetings, Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School officers, and poem "A Christmas Carol."
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