Martin Digital History

Boy with catch on a pier, Winter 1920

Item

Title

Boy with catch on a pier, Winter 1920

Description

Hugh Willoughby III (a.k.a. “Billy”) stands on a pier holding up a fish with several fish and buckets laying on the pier around him. An adult kneels on the pier possibly cleaning a fish in the background. Photo published in the January 1921 issue of Power Boating magazine (volume XXIII, No. 1) along with an article written by Edythe Willoughby titled “Cruising Among the Florida Keys.” The article details Edythe and Hugh Willoughby Jr’s travels from Miami to the Florida Keys and won the first prize in Power Boating magazine’s annual cruise story competition in 1921. Photo captioned in the article as “Grouper caught at Long Key.”

Source

Scan gift of Historical Society of Martin County.

Publisher

The Penton Publishing Company (Cleveland, Ohio)

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; 3.5x5.5 inches

Language

English

Type

Still Image

Identifier

HSMC-2024-006-W-b1-345
2024.006
2013.33.02.04

Original Format

Negative

Citation

Hugh de Laussat Willoughby II (1885-1956), “Boy with catch on a pier, Winter 1920,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/6294.