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The Gravestone of Oliver Fellows Bowen
Title
The Gravestone of Oliver Fellows Bowen.
Abstract / Description
The gravestone of Oliver Fellows Bowen in place at Wulfert. He moved to Sanibel with his Trinidadian wife Mary, and was buried per his request in a well on his property.
Date Issued
1900
Identifier
SW00001426, 47854, fgcu:21551
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
John Bailey at Sanibel Historical Village and Museum
Title
John Bailey at Sanibel Historical Village and Museum.
Abstract / Description
John Bailey regales an audience at the old Bailey's General Store at the Sanibel Historical Village and Museum in June 1993. John, Francis, and Sam Bailey were born to Frank P. Bailey, also one of three sons--Frank, Harry and Ernest Bailey. The Baileys farmed on Sanibel, coming to the island in 1894, and established a packing company and general store in 1899.
Date Issued
1993
Identifier
SW00001412, 47762, fgcu:21537
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Couple on a Mule Drawn Wagon
Title
Couple on a Mule Drawn Wagon.
Abstract / Description
The daughter of a Sanibel farming family, Irene Riddle married a farmer, Jesse Adkins. The two of them in the cart pulled by the gray mule, are in front of Irene's home. George Riddle, her father, had built their six-room house a half mile south of the school and a half mile from the Gulf, near the cemetery, along Casa Ybel Road.
Date Issued
1913
Identifier
SW00001735, 48170, fgcu:21832
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Stark Sanford Carraway and Belton Johnson In a Sanibel Tomato Field
Title
Stark Sanford Carraway and Belton Johnson In a Sanibel Tomato Field.
Abstract / Description
Stark Sanford Carraway and Belton C. Johnson in a Sanibel tomato field. The Carraways farmed at Wulfert at the north end of Sanibel. Belton Johnson's family farmed near Tarpon Bay on Sanibel.
Date Issued
1912
Identifier
SW00001439, 47687, fgcu:21564
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Eva and Arthur Carraway Work in a Sanibel Packing house
Title
Eva and Arthur Carraway Work in a Sanibel Packing house.
Abstract / Description
Eva Arnold Carraway and Arthur Jackson Carraway work in a Sanibel packing house about 1909. Their two daughters sit on the stool.
Date Issued
1909
Identifier
SW00001440, 47481, fgcu:21565
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Canning Label
Title
Canning Label.
Abstract / Description
An early canning label of A & P tiny green Lima beans.
Identifier
SW00001434, 48383, fgcu:21559
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Francis Bailey plowing on the Bailey's Sanibel Island farm
Title
Francis Bailey plowing on the Bailey's Sanibel Island farm.
Abstract / Description
Francis Bailey plowing his fields on the Bailey's Sanibel Island farm in 1947.
Date Issued
1947
Identifier
SW00001421, 47577, fgcu:21546
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Leatitia Lafon Nutt
Title
Leatitia Lafon Nutt.
Abstract / Description
One of the three daughters of Letitia Nutt, who came to Sanibel to homestead in 1889, Letitia Lafon Nutt, called Miss Lettie by everyone, taught school in numerous southwest Florida locations.
Date Issued
1930
Identifier
SW00001693, 47409, fgcu:21810
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Harry Bailey and Lime Grove
Title
Harry Bailey and Lime Grove.
Abstract / Description
Harry Bailey stands in his two years old lime groves, two years old located on Sanibel in the early part of the century.
Identifier
SW00001411, 48010, fgcu:21536
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Canning label of Cape Henlopen
Title
Canning label of Cape Henlopen.
Abstract / Description
An early canning label, of Cape Henlopen small green Lima beans.
Identifier
SW00001433, 47881, fgcu:21558
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Shurfine Lima Bean Canning Label
Title
Shurfine Lima Bean Canning Label.
Abstract / Description
1920s Shurfine fancy grade small green lima beans canning label.
Identifier
SW00001438, 48521, fgcu:21563
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Canning Label: Early Bloom
Title
Canning Label: Early Bloom.
Abstract / Description
An early canning label of Early Bloom fresh white Lima beans.
Identifier
SW00001435, 48368, fgcu:21560
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Laetitia Ashmore Nutt
Title
Laetitia Ashmore Nutt.
Abstract / Description
Laetitia Ashmore Nutt as a young belle, followed her husband, LeRoy through a number of battles during the Civil War. When he was captured, serving a year as a prisoner of war, she lived nearby. Her husband later became a lawyer and Louisiana State Senator.
Date Issued
1860
Identifier
SW00001695, 47475, fgcu:21812
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Canning Label: Eventide
Title
Canning Label: Eventide.
Abstract / Description
An early canning label, of Eventide early June peas.
Identifier
SW00001436, 47747, fgcu:21561
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
White Rose Lima Bean Canning Label
Title
White Rose Lima Bean Canning Label.
Abstract / Description
1920s White Rose small green lima beans canning label.
Identifier
SW00001437, 48518, fgcu:21562
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Early Photo of Sanibel Island's Open Prairie
Title
Early Photo of Sanibel Island's Open Prairie.
Abstract / Description
The open prairie of interior Sanibel allows farming to begin without extensive clearing of vegetation in homestead days.
Date Issued
1908
Identifier
SW00001870, 50240, fgcu:21964
Format
Image (JPEG2000)