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One of Oliver Bowen's Barns in 1958

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Date Issued:
1958
Summary:
In 1958 a barn from the homestead of Oliver Bowen's family still stood on Wulfert. He brought much of the material for his buildings, including slate roof tiles, from Trinidad where he had been living the previous decade. Bowen experimented with plants, including agave brought from South America to Sanibel.
Title: One of Oliver Bowen's Barns in 1958.
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Type of Resource: still image
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1958
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 1 black and white photograph
Summary: In 1958 a barn from the homestead of Oliver Bowen's family still stood on Wulfert. He brought much of the material for his buildings, including slate roof tiles, from Trinidad where he had been living the previous decade. Bowen experimented with plants, including agave brought from South America to Sanibel.
Identifier: SW00001430 (IID), 47616 (digitool), fgcu:21555 (fedora)
Note(s): Originally digitized by Southwest Florida Library Network as part of the Digitizing Southwest Florida Heritage Project and PALMM Project, 2004 in collaboration with the Sanibel Public Library. Project was funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services.
Subject(s): Homesteading
Sanibel Island (Fla.)--History
Sanibel (Fla.)
Captiva Island (Fla.)
Oliver Bowen
Held by: Sanibel Public Library, Sanibel Island, Florida
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/ic/SW00001430
Use and Reproduction: All rights reserved. Material may be used only for research, educational, legal and non-commercial purposes, with acknowledgement of DigitalFGCU, Florida Gulf Coast University Library and the Sanibel Public Library.
Host Institution: FGCU