Alligators in the Backyard
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Timucua Indians hunting alligators in Northeast Florida (1564)
Image Number:
N032189
Many of Florida's Native Americans hunted alligators for skin and food. This drawing was by French artist Jacques Le Moyne while stationed at the French colony of Fort Carolina on the banks of the St. Johns River. While the alligator's size was undoubtedly exaggerated in this illustration (perhaps by printer Theodore DeBry), there is some evidence that alligators at the time were larger than those found today.
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Tourists shooting alligators from a steamship on Lake Ocklawaha (c. 1874)
Image Number:
RC02126
Alligators have been hunted throughout the 19th and 20th centuries for food, their skin, for sport, and out of fear. Many steamship companies that operated in the 1800s advertised the opportunity to shoot alligators from their boats. |
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Alligator hunter about to bag a big one (1880s)
Image Number: N046020 |
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Alligator hunting camp: Ocala, Florida (1880s)
Image Number: RC02030
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Captured alligator in a mangrove swamp (1882)
Image Number: RC08273 |
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Two hunters with alligator: Ocala, Florida (1890s)
Image Number: RC08515
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Alligator shot by the captain of 4th Illinois Volunteers: Jacksonville, Florida (1898)
Image Number: N041288
The captain belonged to Company G of the 4th Illinois Volunteers, staged in Jacksonville for the Spanish-American War. |
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Leigh M. Pearsall and daughter Edna with alligator on dock: Melrose, Florida (ca. 1905)
Image Number: RC19775 |
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Harvesting alligator eggs (1910s)
Image Number: RC05447 |
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Alligator hunters in a boat with an alligator (1913)
Image Number: RC10561
Alligator hunters Hamp Hunter and Robert Burt in a boat built by Box Tedder specifically for alligator hunting. |
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Clifford Lucky kneeling over an alligator he captured (ca. 1917)
Image Number: RC08183 |
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Dorothy Hedley Morris with alligator: Fort Lauderdale, Florida (19--)
Image Number: N042714 |
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Man inspecting an alligator nest and alligator eggs (19--)
Image Number: PR00145 |
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Alligator hunter posing with the kill from a hunt (ca. 1920)
Image Number: PR00143
"This is the man that killed the gaitors, there is 30 in the bunch. They run from 12 in. to 12 ft. long." |
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Two Seminoles and captured alligator (1920s)
Image Number: N027576 |
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An Alligator hunter: Palm Beach, Florida (19--?)
Image Number: PC0178 |
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Alligators skins confiscated by the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission (1960s)
Image Number: FW00328
By the 1960s, alligators were hunted to near extinction, leading the Federal and state laws banning the hunting of the species. |
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