Martin Digital History

Fish house toppled by hurricane, 1949

Item

Title

Fish house toppled by hurricane, 1949

Description

Building toppled over by the 1949 hurricane. Photograph captured by Earl Dyer Ricou and published in the Stuart News (01 Sep 1949) with caption reading "Fish House Blown Out Of Use. The fish house of Joe Winowiecki's won't be of any use to him for awhile, if ever, after Friday's hurricane rolled it over and into the Indian River on the river drive just north of Robertson's Grocery in Jensen Beach."

Source

Scan gift of Sandra Thurlow.

Publisher

The Stuart News (Stuart, Fla)

Date

Contributor

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 photocopy

Language

English

Type

Still Image

Identifier

Thurlow-2025-039-folders-042
2025.039

Original Format

Photographic print

Citation

Earl Dyer Ricou (1923-2011), “Fish house toppled by hurricane, 1949,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/17715.