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Photograph album: Souvenir Floride

"A unique assemblage of photographs documenting the visit of four French speculators to Florida in the first decade of the 20th century. Central Florida is home to the United States' largest known deposits of phosphate, which has been mined in the state since at least the 1880s for use in agricultural fertilizer and a variety of industrial and food-related applications. The present album documents a visit by a group of two men and two women (almost certainly from France) to a phosphate mining area of Polk County, just east of Tampa. The French were major investors and speculators in Florida phosphate throughout the industry's early decades. The phosphate industry has come under intense scrutiny in recent decades due to the environmental impact of its processes, which often result in red tide (toxic algae blooms) and the death of local wildlife.

The trip made by French citizens seen here evidently began with some drama, as the album opens with a series of ten images of a derailed locomotive and the efforts to get it back on track. The cleanup effort features several African American Pullman porters assisting with the digging. The remainder of the images are almost all related to the phosphate industry. The pictures depict the camp where the party stayed, with images of their large, well-built cabin, quarters for the African American workers, recently cleared forest, phosphate-rich ground, various prospectors, the Standard Phosphate Company processing plant and generator, and the railroad used to transport the phosphate to Lakeland. They then travel to neighboring deposits, camps, and factories, including the Greenbay Phosphate Co. (now a ghost town) and something labeled as 'Rockefeller [sic] Plant.' The latter is somewhat puzzling, since the Rockefellers were not known to be involved with the Florida phosphate industry, through their experience with refining natural resources may have led them to dabble in phosphate. One interesting image of a field that looks particularly stripped bare is captioned, 'Exploitation,' testifying to the environmental impact of phosphate mining on the land under which it is mined. The album ends with some additional images of the visitors in their cabin, a couple of images depicting visitors hunting, and finally, visiting Tampa. The images in Tampa include the public gardens, the courthouse, a port building on stilts, the shipyard cranes, and the docks where cargo ships were loaded with phosphate for export." --description from McBride Rare Books.

Photograph album: Sign painter's work in Florida

"A photo album by notable sign painter, Sid Smith, compiling his work in Southern Florida in the 1920s. The album opens with a handwritten title which reads, 'This note book covers my work from 1921 to about 1932 Miami - Sarasota from billboards to theatres.' Following this are photos documenting his work throughout Florida over a roughly ten-year period. The work varies from Florida tourism billboards advertising visiting Miami and other Florida cities to realtor's ads, inns, and building supply companies." -- description from Between the Covers

Smith, Sid

Photograph album: Reminiscences of Florida, Illinois, and Missouri

"Reminiscences of Florida, Illinois, and Missouri [cover title]. [Various locations. 1892]. Twenty-six leaves containing 104 albumen photographs. Each photo caption in contemporary ink on the mount. Oblong octavo. Original brown morocco, cover gilt, sympathetically rebacked, a.e.g.

An interesting album, of photographs compiled by one photographer -presumably an amateur- which includes scenes in Missouri, Illinois, and Florida. The images, which start with scenes of street illumination in St. Louis, include views of significant architectural monuments and parkland in major cities, steamers coaling and loading grain on the Illinois Rover, and other vernacular subjects such as farms, gardens, rail yards, and people. The album jumps around between states, showing areas around St. Louis, Kansas City, Allendale, and St. Joseph in Missouri; Peoria, Pullman, and Patoka in Illinois, two photographs in Patriot, Indiana, located just south of Cincinnati on the Kentucky border; and views in Palatka, Jacksonville, Tampa, St. Augustine in Florida. A series of photographs centered on the Mclaine farm near Allendale includes studies of horses, workers, 'Moving an Old Frame House,' 'House Movers,' 'Temporary Quarters,' and a portrait of a workman clinging to a pole in the air entitled 'Chased by a Bull.'" -- description from William Reese Company

Goodale, D. C.

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