This photo shows details of a poster exhibited at the Punta Gorda Wal-Mart store in appreciation of local veterans.

This photo shows a graded road cutting through the Jordan pasture on the Frizzell Ranch. The grade ended at a small beach on Alligator Bay, now the Port Charlotte Beach Complex.

This photo shows cow pens near the Rocky Creek pasture on the Frizzell Ranch.

This undated studio portrait shows Mabel Lewis Keys as a young woman. The back of the photo notes that the negative would be kept on file at Maas Bros. in Tampa, for reordering purposes.

This undated photo shows Kelly B. Harvey, the surveyor who platted the "Town of Trabue" that later became the city of Punta Gorda. Harvey Street in Punta Gorda is named for him.

Ruth Henrietta Brown was the only child of George Brown, owner of Cleveland Marine Steam Ways, and his first wife. Brown's first wife's name is unknown; she is thought to have died in childbirth in 1892. Ruth H. Brown was born October 24, 1892 and died of tuberculosis August 30, 1905.

A photo of the Charlotte Harbor and Northern (CH&N) railroad trestle across the Peace River at Fort Ogden. The trestle was built c.1885.

This photo showing an unidentified fisherman on a dock with several large fish was copied from a 1913 Punta Gorda Board of Trade brochure. The caption of the photo is "Caught Before Breakfast."

Pebble phosphate is dredged from the Peace River bed. The dredge is accompanied by a tugboat towing a barge.

This house is located at 220 Goldstein Street in Punta Gorda.

This aerial photo shows the city of Punta Gorda on the south shore of Charlotte Harbor. The Hotel Charlotte Harbor and its Olympic-sized pool can be seen in the center foreground. The bridge at far left was the first to span the bay; the middle of the bridge was removed, turning the abutments into fishing piers, when the second bridge was built in 1931. The second bridge (the first Barron Collier Bridge) is seen at the bottom center of the photo; the street it connects to is now northbound U.S. 41.

This undated photo of Ruth Whidden Lewis outdoors shows her wearing a long fleecy tie-belted jacket with piping stripes on the pockets and sleeve cuffs, and a blouse with a wide lace collar.