Alligator Joe’s Battle With a Wounded Gator
Title
Alligator Joe’s Battle With a Wounded Gator
Subject
Alligators -- Florida
Hunting
Palm Beach County (Fla.)
Hunting
Palm Beach County (Fla.)
Description
View of a man with a rifle in a large alligator’s mouth.
[Text on back]
Alligator Joe’s Battle With a Wounded Gator, Palm Beach, Florida: Here is one of the terrors of out southern rivers. Alligators are as much dreaded by bathers in the rivers that flow into the Gulf of Mexico, as are sharks along warm sea beaches. The one here shown has been wounded by a famous hunter. The reptile, even though crippled, has seized the barrel of the rifle. The hunter will doubtless make short work of him.
Alligators are of close kin to crocodiles. In fact, you would have some difficulty in telling the two apart. Alligators live chiefly along the streams of the southeastern United States. There is one kind found also in China. They grow to be almost twenty feet in length, but they do not become full sized until they are about 100 years old. The female lays her eggs in the mud and grass on the banks of a stream, in the late spring. These eggs number from 100 to 200. She watches over them until the warm sun hatches out the little creatures. She then leads them down to the water and gives them their first lesson in swimming.
There are not nearly so many of these animals in our southern rivers as there formerly were. This is largely because hunters have killed them. Formerly the animals were shot because of the fear people had of them. Now they are hunted because of their skins and their teeth. Their skins make fine, soft leather. You have doubtless seen bags and belts made of alligator hides. Their teeth are valuable because of the ivory they contain.
What other large animals do you know that live in the rivers of warm countries? Look carefully at this view and describe an alligator so that your classmates would recognize one. Copyright by The Keystone View Company
[Text on back]
Alligator Joe’s Battle With a Wounded Gator, Palm Beach, Florida: Here is one of the terrors of out southern rivers. Alligators are as much dreaded by bathers in the rivers that flow into the Gulf of Mexico, as are sharks along warm sea beaches. The one here shown has been wounded by a famous hunter. The reptile, even though crippled, has seized the barrel of the rifle. The hunter will doubtless make short work of him.
Alligators are of close kin to crocodiles. In fact, you would have some difficulty in telling the two apart. Alligators live chiefly along the streams of the southeastern United States. There is one kind found also in China. They grow to be almost twenty feet in length, but they do not become full sized until they are about 100 years old. The female lays her eggs in the mud and grass on the banks of a stream, in the late spring. These eggs number from 100 to 200. She watches over them until the warm sun hatches out the little creatures. She then leads them down to the water and gives them their first lesson in swimming.
There are not nearly so many of these animals in our southern rivers as there formerly were. This is largely because hunters have killed them. Formerly the animals were shot because of the fear people had of them. Now they are hunted because of their skins and their teeth. Their skins make fine, soft leather. You have doubtless seen bags and belts made of alligator hides. Their teeth are valuable because of the ivory they contain.
What other large animals do you know that live in the rivers of warm countries? Look carefully at this view and describe an alligator so that your classmates would recognize one. Copyright by The Keystone View Company
Creator
Unknown
Source
Box 4, Folder Palm Beach Lake Worth, 001.90.11.AV484
Stereoscopic view, 3.5 x 7 inches
Stereoscopic view, 3.5 x 7 inches
Publisher
Meadville, PA: Keystone View Company
Matheson Museum (electronic version)
Matheson Museum (electronic version)
Date
[1905]
Created-2011-03-25
Created-2011-03-25
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
Has Version-stereoscopic view card -- stereoscopic view card #001.90.11.AV484
Is Part Of-Matheson Museum, Florida Views Collection
Is Part Of-Matheson Museum, Florida Views Collection
Format
Image/jpg
Digital reproduction of a 3.5" x 7" stereoscopic view card
2095 × 1048 pixels
Digital reproduction of a 3.5" x 7" stereoscopic view card
2095 × 1048 pixels
Language
eng
Type
Image
Identifier
001.90.11.AV484
Coverage
Florida -- 1900s
Original Format
Stereoscopic photograph
Physical Dimensions
3.5 x 7 inches
Files
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Alligator Joe’s Battle With a Wounded Gator,” Florida Views: Development and Vision, accessed April 23, 2024, https://flstereoview.omeka.net/items/show/84.