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Day planner documenting day-to-day activities of Blake Banks from the year 1997.

Small, temporary exhibit currently on display at the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library, John F. Germany Branch
900 N. Ashley Drive
Tampa, Florida 33602

Receipt for sponges sold from the Medusa at a Tarpon Springs auction dated June 8, 1989. Includes variously sized wool and yellow sponges. The grand total is $4,131. The amounts are handwritten on a pink slip of paper with a yellow carbon copy.…

Color photograph of men and sponges on the dock next to the Medusa.

Color photograph of a wool sponge underwater, rake next to it.

Written on back:
June 89 Wool Sponge 48'

Black and white photograph of a man with a basket over his shoulder with sponges spread on ground around him. Workshop with doors open behind him.

Color photograph of sponges for sale in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Color photograph of sponges laid out on pier from Blake Banks's first sponge auction in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Written on back:
$4,438 630 yellows
First auction July 26, 1988-690 wools

Color photograph of wool sponges strung up at George Billiris's Warehouse in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Black and white photograph of two fishermen sitting on a boat, trimming sponges.