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A thirsty woman drinks from a pitcher after arriving at the Tarpon Bay dock. The dock, with its long pier and buildings, was an early entry and exit from the islands.

A woman stands on the beach in front of an Australian Pine tree holding a pitch fork and dip net

Rate board, interior of Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce, showing motels and houses available for rental. Staffer points to vacancy list.

Florence (last name unknown) sits on the stairs of the Beach House, one of the Sawyer family's buildings, in the mid-20s on Sanibel.

One of the Sears family women walk over a board dock to a vessel, possibly at Alva on the Caloosahatchee upstream from Fort Myers, at the turn of the century.

An unidentified woman walks along the shore of one of Sanibel's beaches.

Two women and a child stroll along the main path to the Sisters Hotel on the Sanibel prairie. The hotel is nearly hidden by trees in the background.

A grouping of women, visitors to Sanibel in 1908, perhaps coming from church services at the Casa Ybel church.

A view of the Woodring dock with net drying racks

The Woodring family Dock at the mouth of Tarpon Bay on Woodring Point, looking into San Carlos Bay on the north shore of Sanibel. The dock is used recreationally, for guiding trips, and for bait shrimp collection. The Woodring family homesteaded on the Point in 1888, and generations of the family have been fishermen and guides on the island.