Martin Digital History

Building on a pier, Winter 1923

Item

Title

Building on a pier, Winter 1923

Description

Man ascends the stairs of a building near a waterway with onlookers watching from a boat tied to the pier nearby. Photo published in the February 1923 issue of Power Boating magazine (volume XXV, No. 2). Edythe Willoughby contributed an article to this issue of the magazine, titled “Cruising Northward in the Spring” about traveling in their houseboat named “Dorothy” from Miami, Florida to Newport, Rhode Island. Edythe Willoughby’s article won second prize in Power Boating magazine’s Annual Prize Story contest. Photo captioned in the article as “The Haulover canal toll house.”

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; 2.2x3.2 inches

Language

English

Type

Still Image

Identifier

HSMC-2024-006-W-b1-433
2024.006
2013.33.02.04

Original Format

Negative

Tags

Citation

Hugh de Laussat Willoughby II (1885-1956), “Building on a pier, Winter 1923,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/6382.