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Young Ernie Lyons in a boat, 1922

Teen boy, Ernie Lyons, in a boat. Handwritten on back: "Dear Erin Doon [?] 2-3-22 What have we here? So I live, an Elto. Look at it firmly attached to the rear of the skiff. My, Ernest Fulton Lyons' skiff; that's whose. And tomorrow, Erin Doon at crack of dawn, to men (one of them 18 the fourth of March next) will steal silently along to the said skiff, place it on a truck, and go 8 miles to the canal. Then the skiff propelled by the wonderful Elto will go to Lake Okeechobee with those two men. Who are they? Well you know. Uncle Harry. On Lake Okeechobee going along-the Elto never failed us."

An "elto" is a type of motor for a boat.

Tags Boats

Young Ernie Lyons with bobcat skins and fish, 1922

Teen boy, Ernie Lyons, holding skins of two bobcats, and a fish. Handwritten on back: "2-3-22 We have here an Evanston High School boy student completely surrounded on both sides by wildcats. O, Gee! But then when we see that the[y] are only skins of wildcats one realizes how [?] the high school boy is. What is he holding in one hand? A 4 lb. trout. Yep. His Daddy caught said trout, but you would never guess it. Write us. Uncle Harry."

Tags Bobcats, Fish, Hunting

Cornerstone ceremony for Salerno school, 1922

Crowd gathered for the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Salerno School, 17 November 1922.

Tags Buildings, Cornerstone laying, Rites & ceremonies

Masonic rites at cornerstone ceremony, 1922

Crowd gathered to watch the cornerstone laying ceremony held for Stuart High School on 17 November 1922.

According to the Stuart Messenger (23 Nov 1922), a cornerstone laying ceremony for Stuart High School, held on 17 November 1922, included Masonic rites officiated by the Masonic Grand Master of the State of Florida, Charles M. Ketcham. Local figures involved in the (Acacia Lodge 163) Masonic ceremony were J. N. Youngblood, George W. Parks, J. N. Newnham, G. S. Moore, Edward Mapp, A. T. Hogarth, H. W. Sankey, Max Sirkin and Eric Schroeder.

Tags Cornerstone laying, Freemasons, Rites & ceremonies

Ruth Wiley Hall, 1922

Ruth May Wiley Hall (1905-1975) wearing a large hat, posed on a tram wagon.

Percy Andrews with pineapple crew, 1922

Published in Sandra Thurlow's book, Sewall's Point (p. 100), with the caption: "Percy Andrews with his Bahamian pineapple crew in 1922." Handwritten on back: "Robert Goodbread identified the middle man as George Mackey."

Tags African Americans, Agricultural laborers, Pineapples

Kitching-Taylor family, 1922

Standing: Walter Kitching and wife Emma Michael Kitching. Seated adults: John Taylor and wife Josephine Taylor (daughter of Walter and Emma), and their three children Emma Taylor Ashley (1917-2001), Celia Taylor Menninger (1915-1969), and John E. Taylor (1921-2002). Photographer Lemuel E. Friend was Emma Kitching's brother-in-law.

Third Methodist Church, Stuart, Florida, c. 1922

The third incarnation of the Stuart Methodist Church. This church was dedicated in 1917 and was located at the corner of West 3rd Street and Albany Avenue. Building used until 1959 when the current First United Church building was completed.

Also published as a postcard.

Tags Churches, Methodist churches