Martin Digital History

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  • Studio portrait of a young Hugh Willoughby sitting on a penny-farthing bicycle carrying a knapsack, hunting horn, and a camera. A landscape style backdrop is behind Willoughby. Written on the back: "Willoughby on first bicycle in U.S. 1879. Notice horn, light, and knapsack."
  • A young Hugh Willoughby poses next to a camera on a tripod. Wall or building behind him has palm fronds decorating it. Handwritten caption on front: "Our special artist in Florida, 1879."
  • Studio portrait of Capt. Hugh Willoughby wearing his football uniform from University of Pennsylvania and holding a football. Studio backdrop behind him depicts a wooded area with birch trees.
  • Two men hunt on a beach. The men stand in a hole dug out from the sand, serving as a hunting blind. One man aims a rifle in the air.
  • Men stand at the railing of wooden platform holding, aiming, reloading, or shooting rifles in a wooded area. Poor copy.
  • View of a thatched roof hut with stilts on a waterway. A man and a dog stand on the platform outside of the hut. Poor copy.
  • Two boys kneel on logs floating on a waterway. The boys may be on a camping trip and appear to be brushing their teeth and washing their hands using the waters they float upon.
  • Crowd of people and children stand on a dirt road near a stone wall. The two male figures in the center of the crowd may be Hugh Willoughby Jr. and Hugh Willoughby III. A house or other building in view near the crowd.
  • Small boat tied to another boat (out of view) with channel markers and several small islands in the background. Photo published in the January 1921 issue of Power Boating magazine (volume XXIII, No. 1) along with an article written by Edythe Willoughby titled “Cruising Among the Florida Keys.” The article details Edythe and Hugh Willoughby Jr’s travels from Miami to the Florida Keys and won the first prize in Power Boating magazine’s annual cruise story competition in 1921. Photo captioned in the article as “Some Glimpses of Scenery Enroute – Cow pen keys.”
  • A young boy and woman in a shallow waterway. Mass of mangrove roots visible next to the boy.
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