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Shipwreck of the schooner Wilbur S. Bartlett, 1925

Item

Title

Shipwreck of the schooner Wilbur S. Bartlett, 1925

Description

Four masted ship and two men on beach amid lumber.

Published in the South Florida Developer's Martin County Birthday Festival program of events (1926) with the caption "Shipwreck on December 1925 of the Wilbert H. Bartlett with a lumber cargo within six miles of St. Lucie Inlet. A safe anchorage in St. Lucie Harbor would have saved lives."

Photo from the South Fork High School 1991 publication, Thurlow collection, Florida Cracker Sampler, p. 65.

Source

Scan gift of Sandra Thurlow.

Publisher

South Florida Developer (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 copy print; 6x4 inches

Language

English

Type

Still image

Identifier

Thurlow-2024-002-008
2024.002

Original Format

Photographic print

Citation

“Shipwreck of the schooner Wilbur S. Bartlett, 1925,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/3437.