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Joe Warner's Spanish range bull with some of the herd. Joe Warner was trying to breed back to the original Spanish cattle that came to Florida, since the breed was being lost with new hybrid cattle. [Source: Warner papers, Eaton Florida History Collection]

Country scene of a lonesome road near the Rye settlement. Tall pines line both sides of the one-lane dirt road and scrub palmettos fill the land in at ground level.

An automobile drives down a muddy road near Myakka City. The auto license number is JM 5050.

Florida Forest Service staff at the Oneco Fire Tower.

An automobile drives down a muddy road near Myakka City.

Manatee County's first library building, created by the ladies of the Bradentown Village Improvement Association, the V.I.A.

The entrance gate and drive to the Oaks, an estate owned by Mrs. Potter Palmer.

The entrance way and doorway columns and the brick Cortez Rural Graded School. The building survived the 1921 hurricane and later became a maritime museum.

The home of C.N. Thompson on Indian Beach Road.

The home of C.N. Thompson. The home was later owned by Charles Ringling.

C.N. Thompson home at Indian Beach. This site was later sold to John Ringling, the circus magnate.

Flooding during the rainy season at Osprey in the early 20th Century. Ladies pose in water nearly up to their knees in their yard.

Two men look over cattle in a cattle dipping chute at an Osprey area ranch. The arsenic dip killed cattle ticks that were harming Florida herds.

A half-sunken boat rests near The Old Pine at Palma Sola, along the Manatee River.

Manatee River shore at Palma Sola.

Palms and pines adorn a waterfront property on the Manatee River.

Tropical River Scene. Tall palms and pines tower above hammock trees along the Manatee River or one of its creeks.

Tropical River Scene. Tall palms line the sandy shoreline of the Manatee River, possibly near Rye. One palm has fallen, perhaps from erosion of the river bank. Along the upper edges of the image peek Spanish moss and pines rise above the background foliage in the distance at center of image.

Exterior view of the Jessie P. Miller Elementary School and school grounds.

The wooden home called Sans Terre, home of Curtis Gilbert, was built in 1872, one of the early homes in Palma Sola.

Aerial view of the rural Prospect School with its driveway and flagpole.

Jessie P. Miller elementary school, named for a long-time Manatee County Superintendent of Schools. Located along Manatee Avenue next to Westgate Shopping Center, near 45th Street West. Photographer was Harold R. Smith.

The Whitaker's Brook Pines house seen while under construction.

The Whitaker's Book Pine house.

The Whitaker's Brook Pines house.