Martin Digital History

Display of sawfish and shark caught in Inlet, c. 1910

Item

Title

Display of sawfish and shark caught in Inlet, c. 1910

Description

"Shark and fourteen-foot long sawfish caught at inlet." Several men and child with display of fish.

Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

Postcard published by Leighton & Valentine, which operated between 1909 and 1914.

Source

Scan gift of Bette Kindberg, via Sandra Thurlow.

Publisher

Stuart Commercial Club (Stuart, Fla.)

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 print; 7.4x9.7 inches

Language

English

Type

Still image

Identifier

Thurlow-2024-022-SCC-019
2024.022

Original Format

Photographic print

Citation

Florida Photographic Concern (Ft. Pierce, Fla.), “Display of sawfish and shark caught in Inlet, c. 1910,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/4988.