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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.…

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.

Black and white photograph of a sponge diver in full diving gear on edge of boat. He holds a sponge in his left hand.

Black and white photograph of the building used to make the concrete disks used for planting sponges off Sugarloaf Key 1912/1914 .

Black and white photograph of a lady holding a concrete disk used to grow sponge on Sugarloaf Key circa 1910 .

Three pale gray, tan, and orange sponges.

Tan sponge, narrower at bottom.

Color photograph of Blake Banks seated at a table on the Medusa. Crab in front of him.

Written on back:
March 86

Two color photographs of Blake Banks with a hammerhead shark.

.Written on back of both:
March 91
10' Hammerhead Shark