Turtle Crawls, Key West, Florida

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Material Information

Title:: Turtle Crawls, Key West, Florida
Alternate title:: Turtle Kraals, Key West, Florida
Creator:: May Hill Russell Library -- History Dept
Monroe County Public Library System
Place of Publication:: Boston, Mass. ;
Publisher:: Tichnor
Publication Date:: 1940/1949
Language:: English
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.

Subjects / Keywords:: Turtle fisheries -- Pictorial works -- Florida -- Key West ( lcsh )
Docks -- Pictorial works -- Florida -- Key West ( lcsh )
Pictorial works -- Key West ( lcsh )
Pictorial works -- Monroe County (Fla.) ( lcsh )
Monroe -- 12087 ( ceeus )
Genre:: picture ( marcgt )
Coordinates:: 24.56175 x -81.8005833

Scope and Content:: Back of postcard reads "The only cannery of green turtle soup in the United States is in Key West, and its products are exported all over the world wherever epicures congregate. The turtles weighing 300 to 400 pounds are caught in South American waters and penned in "crawls" [i.e., kraals] and they gaze with stoic calm at the strange people who come and look at them". ( , )
Summary:: A woman and two men gaze at the turtles at the Turtle Kraals.
Original Location:: History Dept., May Hill Russell Library; 700 Fleming St., Key West, FL 33040.