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Title: Webb Shanahan.
Abstract / Description: Webb Shanahan was an assistant lighthouse keeper, helping his father Henry, who was keeper in the late nineteenth century until about 1912.
Date Issued: 1930
Identifier: SW00001644, 47884, fgcu:21762
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Vaughnie Rhodes Holding Cat.
Abstract / Description: Vaughnie Rhodes, Lula McLane's sister, at the lighthouse in the 1930s with Fritz the cat. Roscoe McLane was the lighthouse keeper and assistant keeper in the 1930s.
Date Issued: 1930
Identifier: SW00001639, 48106, fgcu:21757
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: The Sanibel Lighthouse.
Abstract / Description: The Sanibel lighthouse stands in the trees behind the western keepers' quarters, photo looking to the northeast along a path to the Gulf.
Date Issued: 1970
Identifier: SW00001807, 50117, fgcu:21904
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Sanibel Lighthouse.
Abstract / Description: The Sanibel lighthouse stands on the beach behind the keepers' quarters, photo looking to the northwest from the tideline.
Date Issued: 1970
Identifier: SW00001808, 50369, fgcu:21905
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Telegram Expressing Sympathy for Roscoe McLane's Death.
Abstract / Description: Telegram from Wess and Bessie expressing sympathy to Mrs. McLane after Roscoe McLane's death in 1938.
Identifier: SW00001930, 50084, fgcu:22024
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: "Sanibel ISL. Light" on Tobacco Card.
Abstract / Description: The Sanibel lighthouse and keepers' quarters as represented on a tobacco card, part of a series of fifty cards representing lighthouses. Front of card with drawing.
Date Issued: 1910
Identifier: SW00001811, 50564, fgcu:21908
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Sanibel Lighthouse Historical Marker.
Abstract / Description: The Sanibel lighthouse historical marker stands in front of the lighthouse tower, placed there in 1974.
Date Issued: 1990
Identifier: SW00001809, 49964, fgcu:21906
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Eastern Lighthouse Keepers' Quarters.
Creator: United States Coast Guard
Abstract / Description: The eastern lighthouse keepers' quarters in 1943, with the submarine observation tower just beyond, a spotting scope is visible. The cistern destroyed in the 1944 hurricane is also evident.
Date Issued: 1943
Identifier: SW00001792, 49682, fgcu:21889
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Keeper Quarters.
Creator: United States Coast Guard
Abstract / Description: A view from the Gulf of Mexico looking northeast to the eastern keeper quarters.
Identifier: SW00001798, 49496, fgcu:21895
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Lighthouse, Boathouse and Dock.
Creator: United States Coast Guard
Abstract / Description: A view from San Carlos Bay of the lighthouse, boathouse, and dock, looking south, probably in 1948 according to Lighthouse Keeper Bob England. Rails for the boats to be taken into the boathouse are visible, gasoline tanks are on the dock for the boat. Point Ybel or lighthouse point extends considerable farther to the east in this photo.
Date Issued: 1948
Identifier: SW00001795, 50351, fgcu:21892
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Dock at Sanibel Lighthouse.
Abstract / Description: The Sanibel lighthouse covered boat dock with the Coast Guard boat moored beneath.
Date Issued: 1940
Identifier: SW00001813, 50399, fgcu:21910
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Wharf Pilings.
Abstract / Description: A view from the Gulf of Mexico looking northwest over the lighthouse compound, with pilings from Gulfside wharf remaining.
Date Issued: 1943
Identifier: SW00001801, 49550, fgcu:21898
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Gladys Hill.
Abstract / Description: Gladys Hill, daughter of the Sanibel lighthouse keeper Charles Henry Williams in the early 1910s.
Date Issued: 1990
Identifier: SW00001640, 48239, fgcu:21758
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Howard Lowe, Marion Mayfield Lowe Baker, and Marion Mayfield Baker Lowe.
Abstract / Description: From left to right, Howard Lowe, Marion Mayfield Lowe Baker, and Marion Mayfield Baker Lowe, in Lynch, KY, 1939-40. Howard Lowe was assistant lighthouse keeper to Mr. Palmer, probably after Roscoe McLane's death in 1938.
Identifier: SW00001642, 48452, fgcu:21760
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: The Howard Lowe Family.
Abstract / Description: The Howard Lowe family in Lynch, KY, 1939-40. (L-R) Howard Lowe, Jr., Mary Louise Lowe, Julie Lowe, Howard Lowe, and Mary Lowe. Howard Lowe was assistant lighthouse keeper to Mr. Palmer, probably after Roscoe McLane's death in 1938. Their younger son Roy is not in the photo.
Date Issued: 1939
Identifier: SW00001643, 48482, fgcu:21761
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Roscoe F. McLane.
Abstract / Description: Roscoe F. McLane, lighthouse keeper and assistant keeper in the 1930s.
Date Issued: 1934
Identifier: SW00001638, 47843, fgcu:21756
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Sanibel Lighthouse.
Abstract / Description: A view of the Sanibel Lighthouse from the west through sea grapes and Australian pines.
Date Issued: 1970
Identifier: SW00001804, 49586, fgcu:21901
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Group At The Dock of The Sanibel Lighthouse.
Abstract / Description: A group of people evidently meeting an incoming vessel at the dock of the Sanibel Lighthouse in the 1890s. The boathouse for the lightkeepers and its railway are alongside the dock, and the lighthouse and western keepers' quarters can be seen in the background.
Date Issued: 1890
Identifier: SW00001805, 50294, fgcu:21902
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: The Stairway to the Lighthouse Tower.
Abstract / Description: The stairway to the lighthouse tower in August 1932.
Identifier: SW00001794, 50420, fgcu:21891
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Telegram from Key West Granting Roscoe McLane Sick Leave Due to Appendicitis.
Abstract / Description: Telegram from William Demeritt in Key West, Lighthouse District supervisor, authorizing sick leave for Roscoe McLane when he was stricken with appendicitis while assistant lighthouse keeper on Sanibel.
Identifier: SW00001927, 49583, fgcu:22021
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

History (34)	+ -
Lighthouses (26)	+ -
Sanibel Lighthouse (23)	+ -
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Telegraph (10)	+ -

keepers' quarters (8)	+ -
Observation towers (4)	+ -
United States. Coast Guard (4)	+ -
water tanks (4)	+ -
Cisterns (3)	+ -
Erosion (3)	+ -
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submarine observation tower (3)	+ -
Charles Henry Williams (2)	+ -
Gladys Lucille Williams Hill (2)	+ -
Howard Lowe (2)	+ -
Lookout Quarters (2)	+ -
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boathouse (2)	+ -
tobacco card (2)	+ -
Charlotta Matthews (1)	+ -
Frank P Bailey (1)	+ -
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World War II Collection (3)	+ -

Captiva Island (Fla.) (44)	+ -
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Sanibel Island (Fla.) (34)	+ -
Sanibel Island (Fla.)--History (10)	+ -
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