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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramPhotocollage of Apalachicola residents, fish and oyster houses.
Image Number
Rights
Collection
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Corporate Subject
Green Point Fish and Oyster Company (Green Point, Fla.)
Sea Food Products (Apalachicola, Fla.)
Morris Packing (Apalachicola, Fla.)
Acme Packing Company (Apalachicola, Fla.)
Margie Louise (Boat)
West Point Oyster Company (Apalachicola, Fla.)
J.D. Anderson Fish and Oysters (Apalacicola, Fla.)
Bay City Packing Company (Apalachicola, Fla.)
Rice Brothers Packing Company (Apalachicola, Fla.)
W.E. Fing Ice House (Apalachicola, Fla.)
Popham Building (Apalachicola, Fla.)
Cultivated Oyster Farm Corporation (Apalachicola, Fla.)
Shepard Oyster House (Apalachicola, Fla.)
Physical Description
General Note
Row 2, left to right: W.E. Fing's Ice House (later owned by Ike Wade and Fred Sawyer). Dock at Minago Risatana. Rice Brothers Packing Company and Shepard's Oyster House (later owned by Paul Ploegger).
Row 3, left to right: Bay City Packing Company. J.D. Anderson Fish and Oysters (fresh pack). The Margie Louise, owned by Paul Ploegger, held 50 barrels of oysters.
Row 4, left to right: West Point Oyster Company, owned by the Fortunas'. Acme Packing Company. Toronto (fresh pack) Company, owned by Joe and Anthony Toronto. Building was originally Coombs sawmill office.
Row 5, left to right: Rice Brothers Packing Company, owned by Bob and Ewing Rice, later building used as a WPA beet canning plant.Green Point Fish and Oyster Company of Minago Risatana. Sea Food Products, owned by Lindsay, Roger Newton and George George.
Row 6, left to right: B.O. Morris Packing (later owned by Hyram Sperry and then by Taso Rouso). Group portrait of unknown individuals. Fresh packing house.
Row 1, left to right: Cultivated Oyster Farm Corp., Avenue E and Water Street, owned by Joseph Massina, Sr. Popham building, built in the early 1920's.
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