Browse Items (814 total)
-
Florida Kitching Speirs on beach, c. 1923
Florida Kitching Speirs (1884-1970) on the beach with an Essex car, a unidentified man in the back seat. Florida later became the Stuart City Clerk.
No. 8596 recorded in Florida Photographic Concern record book #2 (PDF page 37) "8590-8598 Lyons Beach Scenes, Stuart, L" Undated, but no. 8522 is dated 1923, and no. 8633 is dated 1924, so the date of 1923 is probable. Husband John Alexander Yorkston Speirs died in 1922. -
Earl Ricou and Dale Hipson visiting the "dinosaur tree," c. 1965
Images of Dale Hipson and Earl Ricou fishing near the "dinosaur tree" which is near Treasure Island in today's Halpatiokee Regional Park (2026). -
U.S. Coast Guard crew at Gilbert's Bar Coast Guard Station, 1943
Published in Sandra Thurlow's US Life-Saving Service book with the caption: "This photograph of the crew at Station 207 appeared in booklet published by the Stuart News on October 7, 1943, celebrating the completion of the Federal Recreation Building in Stuart. Back row, up stairway: Norman N. Jeffry, Sea. 1c; Thomas Rex Ingram, Sea. 1c; Hugh E. Jordan, Sea. 1c; Nicholas A. Pintado, Sea. 1c; Joe Lewein, Cox.; A. L. Brown, SC 1c; Tommie Lewis, CBM (in command of station.) Front row, left to right: Charles J. Telesco, Sea. 1c; J. W. Gilliam, Sea. 2c; William L. Shuppert, Sea. 2c; Carl Cohen, Sea. 1c; George L. Hamill, Sea. 1c; Steve P. Vanno, Sea 1c." -
Processing green turtles, c. 1905
Workers process green turtles on a dock for shipping.Tags Alligators -
Battle with alligator, c. 1905
Alligator wrangler, "Alligator Joe" battles with a wounded alligator. "Alligator Joe," Warren Frazee (1873-1915) operated an attraction near the gilded hotels of Palm Beach from the late 1890s until 1915. He also opened another attraction in Miami in 1906 and toured northern cities.
Tags Alligators -
Pitchford Sisters, 2003
Betty Merrill and Beverly Miller pose with their Pitchford Family photo album. -
Pitchford Camp portrait with fish, c. 1940
Emeline Field poses with a fish on a pier at the Pitchford Camp in Jensen Beach. -
Pitchford Camp portrait, c. 1940
Woman and dog at the Pitchford Camp in Jensen Beach.
Poor quality copy. -
Pitchford Camp portrait, c. 1940
Three campers at the Pitchford Camp in Jensen Beach.
Poor quality copy. -
Pitchford Camp portrait, c. 1960
J. J. Pitchford (on right) poses in front of a cabin at Pitchford Camp with two of his sons, Herbert and Robert "Doc."
Poor quality copy.