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St. Lucie Canal and dredge B.P. Clark, 1923

Item

Title

St. Lucie Canal and dredge B.P. Clark, 1923

Description

Typed on back: "The dredge BP Clark working on the great St. Lucie Control Canal two and three fourth miles west of the St. Lucie River, January 4, 1923. Canal as big as a river." Handwritten: "This dredge with his rock cutter is adapted for work on the Saint Lucie [?] 20 such suction dredge"

Canal and dredge, R.P. Clark. 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.

Negative number 8206 recorded in the Florida Photographic Concern record book 2 (PDF page 59) with the notation "8200-8225 Stuart Album Series L"

Source

Scan gift of Bette Kindberg, via Sandra Thurlow. Scan of second copy gift of Josephine Paradise and the Taylor-Ashley Agency.

Publisher

Stuart Commercial Club (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 print; 9.3x7.2 inches

Language

English

Type

Still image

Identifier

Thurlow-2024-022-SCC-048
2024.022
2026.002
JP-2026-002-012

Coverage

Original Format

Photographic print

Citation

Florida Photographic Concern (Ft. Pierce, Fla.) and Lowell Gordon Hill (1894-1955), “St. Lucie Canal and dredge B.P. Clark, 1923,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/5017.