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Australian pines fall and along the Gulf shoreline of Sanibel's lighthouse end as the beach erodes.

Sanibel Cottages were built on the islands in the 1950s and 1960s as businesses. Most were built as individual family cottages on the Gulf of Mexico beach.

Carol Hemingway shells along a Sanibel beach in April, 1921.

A couple returns with buckets of shells on Sanibel Beach.

Family on the beach at the Sisters Hotel.

The Snyder Boys School on Captiva in the early 1920s. A group of boys stand on the beach with the Gulf of Mexico behind them. "The school after a plunge" [Written by Wm. Kimball on back: This is what the beach was like before Mariner developed the north shore point.]

Seagulls gather on the Gulf beach at high tide as a chair is threatened by the encroaching sea.

Isabel Sears fastens her hat as she walks the beach on Sanibel.

Ethel Sawyer and a man identified as the President of the Wilson Packing Co. at a beach picnic frying steaks over an open fire on the north end of Sanibel in the mid-twenties.

"Sanibel, 1957" scratched into the sand.