Martin Digital History

Little girl with big trout, 1955

Item

Title

Little girl with big trout, 1955

Description

Girl stands holding a fish in front of a wall of paint cans at a hardware store. Published in the Stuart News (19 May 1955) with the caption: "Pamela 'Pam' Schreckengost, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Schreckengost, caught a bigger sea trout than her dad has landed all year when she went fishing with her grandmother, Mrs. Reginald Kitching, in the St. Lucie last Thursday. Old Spots tipped the scales at 7 lbs."

Source

Scan gift of Sandra Thurlow.

Publisher

Stuart News (Stuart, Fla.)

Date

Rights

No Copyright - In the United States: The Martin County Library System believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. For more information, visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Format

Black and white negative; 4x5 inches

Language

English

Type

Still Image

Identifier

Thurlow-2025-008-events-231
2025.008

Original Format

Negatives

Citation

Earl Dyer Ricou (1923-2011), “Little girl with big trout, 1955,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/13281.