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Cooking fire at Duffy's Creek

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Date Issued:
1940
Summary:
Esperanza Woodring tends a cooking fire at Duffy's Creek in the mangroves on the north side of Sanibel in the 1940s. Fishing guides often cooked lunch for their party while fishing, and she holds a mangrove branch with coon oysters to roast over the fire. Duffy's Creek was named for an early homesteader, and is within the J. N. "D'ing" Darling National Wildllife Refuge.
Title: Cooking fire at Duffy's Creek.
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Type of Resource: still image
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1940
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 1 black and white photograph
Summary: Esperanza Woodring tends a cooking fire at Duffy's Creek in the mangroves on the north side of Sanibel in the 1940s. Fishing guides often cooked lunch for their party while fishing, and she holds a mangrove branch with coon oysters to roast over the fire. Duffy's Creek was named for an early homesteader, and is within the J. N. "D'ing" Darling National Wildllife Refuge.
Identifier: SW00001667 (IID), 47959 (digitool), fgcu:21784 (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): Sanibel Island (Fla.)--History
Sanibel (Fla.)
Captiva Island (Fla.)
Esperanza Woodring
Duffy's Creek
fishing guides
mangroves
Persistent Link to This Record: Electronic Resource
Host Institution: FGCU