The Compleat Angler was a modest three-story hotel on the island of North Bimini in the Bahamas. It was built by Henry and Helen Duncombe in 1935 following destruction by fire of their first house on 18 November 1934. The establishment, located in the centre of Alice Town, contained 12 guestrooms in addition to its bar.
The hotel was notable for its association with Ernest Hemingway, who was a guest from 1935 to 1937 and is said to have worked on his 1937 novel To Have and Have Not there. The Angler was an unofficial museum, with one room devoted to Hemingway’s exploits and most of its pine walls decorated with decades’ worth of fading photos and news clips of assorted anglers and trophy fish.
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1954 – Dexter Press Inc (75200 Series)
