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Title: Northern end of Fort Myers Beach, Bodwitch Point and Matanzas Pass.
Abstract / Description: The northern end of Estero Island or Fort Myers Beach, Bodwitch Point, and Matanzas Pass, looking northeast over the mainland.
Date Issued: 1950
Identifier: SW00001776, 49910, fgcu:21873
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Group of Boys Play Basketball.
Abstract / Description: The Snyder Boys School on Captiva. A group of boys play basketball in front of the school.
Date Issued: 1920
Identifier: SW00001509, 48314, fgcu:21631
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Group of Boys with Sawfish.
Creator: William Kimball
Abstract / Description: A group of boys on the Snyder Boys School sailing vessel with a captured sawfish, about 12-14 feet long, tied and lifted up, in the early 1920s.
Date Issued: 1920
Identifier: SW00001862, 50339, fgcu:21959
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Oyster Roast and Fish Fry.
Abstract / Description: An oyster roast and fish fry on the beach in front of the Woodring family home in the 1940s.
Date Issued: 1940
Identifier: SW00001678, 47911, fgcu:21795
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

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: Live Shell Exhibit At The Sanibel Shell Fair.
Abstract / Description: Live shell exhibit at the 1955 Shell Fair, as a man shows a young girl a live horse conch from the touch tank.
Date Issued: 1955
Identifier: SW00001329, 45596, fgcu:21458
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Sunday School Class at the Sanibel School.
Abstract / Description: A Sunday School class held at the Sanibel School in the 1910s. In 1910 a hurricane destroyed the island's only church, and one was not reconstructed until about 1917, so services were held in other venues. Mrs. Page, the Sunday School teacher, is seated in the middle. Standing from left to right is Ernest Bailey, unknown, Lois Swint Mitchell, unknown, and Bertha Daniels. The Mitchell family donated land for the new church constructed in 1917.
Date Issued: 1910
Identifier: SW00001419, 47580, fgcu:21544
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Frank Bailey, Mary Mead Matthews Bailey and Group on Wedding Day.
Abstract / Description: Frank Bailey and Mary Mead Matthews Bailey on their wedding day, along with a group of unknown wedding guests in 1919.
Date Issued: 1919
Identifier: SW00001420, 48527, fgcu:21545
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

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)

Title: Grave Marker of Oliver Fellows Bowen, June 1st 1900.
Abstract / Description: The gravestone of Oliver Fellows Bowen before placement at Wulfert. Bowen was a Mississippi river boat pilot, one that Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) looked up to as he was growing up. In later years he moved to Sanibel with his Trinidadian wife Mary, and was buried per his request in a well on his property. Bowen experimented with growing agave, which he transported from Trinidad, and conferred with Thomas Edison in the growing of experimental plants.
Date Issued: 1900
Identifier: SW00001427, 47586, fgcu:21552
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: John Bailey Holding a Kitten.
Date Issued: 1933
Identifier: SW00001423, 48149
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Francis, Sam and John Bailey as Children.
Abstract / Description: Francis, Sam and John Bailey on their family's Sanibel Island farm as children.
Identifier: SW00001422, 48052, fgcu:21547
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Four fishermen with Catch at Tarpon Bay.
Abstract / Description: Fishermen with catch of ten tarpon hung from a strangler fig for display at Blind Pass on Sanibel, probably at the Mitchell's place. Blind Pass is in the background.
Date Issued: 1910
Identifier: SW00001485, 47541, fgcu:21608
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Sanibel Causeway Toll Plaza.
Abstract / Description: Sanibel Causeway toll plaza, one lane open, with toll booths and office on right. Rectangular "bug-zapper" for mosquitoes is on post at middle left behind the chain-link fence.
Date Issued: 1973
Identifier: SW00001482, 48533, fgcu:21605
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Tarpon on Display.
Abstract / Description: A catch of tarpon hung for display at Blind Pass on Sanibel, probably at the Mitchell's place.
Date Issued: 1910
Identifier: SW00001484, 47905, fgcu:21607
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Sanibel Causeway Toll Plaza.
Abstract / Description: Sanibel Causeway toll plaza, one lane open, with toll booths. Rectangular "bug-zapper" for mosquitoes is on post at middle left behind the chain-link fence.
Date Issued: 1973
Identifier: SW00001480, 47652, fgcu:21604
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: The Annex to the Snyder Boys School.
Abstract / Description: The Annex to the Snyder Boys School in 1914, looking southwest towards the Gulf of Mexico. At the extreme left a portion of a Gulfside dock is just visible. Gulf docks didn't stand up well under winter storms and hurricanes.
Date Issued: 1914
Identifier: SW00001520, 47401, fgcu:21642
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Family Group in Small Boat.
Abstract / Description: A family group approaches shore in a small boat about 1914.
Date Issued: 1914
Identifier: SW00001522, 48272, fgcu:21644
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Bill Kimball Shows His Catch.
Abstract / Description: Bill Kimball, a student at the Snyder Boys School in the 1920s, shows off his catch aboard the school's sailing vessel.
Date Issued: 1920
Identifier: SW00001515, 47547, fgcu:21637
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

Title: Student Holds Alligator by Tail.
Abstract / Description: A Snyder Boys School student holds an alligator up by its tail on one of Sanibel Island's prairies, in the early 1920s.
Date Issued: 1920
Identifier: SW00001514, 47801, fgcu:21636
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

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